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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
380

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Subjects
Perspective (Philosophy), Infinite, History, Perspective (Philosophie), Histoire, Infini, PHILOSOPHY, History & Surveys, Modern, General, Philosophie, Kunst, Oneindigheid, Moderniteit, Perspectief, Waarheid, Wereldbeeld, Perspektive
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Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal (1401-1464), Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)

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Table of 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 infinite
Copernican revolutions
Epilogue: astronautics and astronoetics.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-369) and index.

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Electronic data. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2003.

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Dewey Decimal Class
190
Library of Congress
BD348 .H37 2001eb

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xii, 380 p. :
Number of pages
380

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OL26420409M
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infinityperspect00harr
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058544837X
OCLC/WorldCat
52289524

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