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Infinity and perspective / Karsten Harries.
Author
Harries, Karsten
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Description
xii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
BD348 .H37 2001
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Perspective (Philosophy)
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Infinite
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History
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Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal 1401-1464
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Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472
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Summary note
"Two spirits preside over the book: Alberti, the Renaissance author on art and architecture, whose passionate interest in perspective and point of view offers a key to modernity; and Nicolaus Cusanus, the fifteenth-century cardinal, whose work shows that such interest cannot be divorced from speculations on the infinity of God. The title Infinity and Perspective connects the two to each other and to the shape of modernity."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-369) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Power and poverty of perspective. Perspective and the infinity of the universe
Learned ignorance
Alberti and perspective construction
Curious perspectives
The thread of Ariadne
pt. 2. Infinity and truth. Truth as the property of God
The infinity of space and the infinity of man
The infinity of man and the infinity of God
Homo Faber: the rediscovery of Protagoras
The dignity of man
pt. 3. The loss of the Earth. Copernican anthropocentrism
The crime of Bruno
Insight and blindness of Galileo
The reef of the infinite
Copernican revolutions
Epilogue: astronautics and astronoetics.
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ISBN
0262082926 ((HC ; : alk. paper))
9780262082921 ((HC ; : alk. paper))
9780262582186
026258218X
Tech. report no.
062001
LCCN
00048034
OCLC
45263879
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