Mathematics played a key role in Renaissance aesthetics. Mathematics was seen as the most fundamental concept that could link nature, the human mind, and the ...
Continue Reading →Daniel Canaris is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-Sen University. He received his PhD in 2017 from the University of ...
Continue Reading →Athanasius Kircher (1602–80) stands out as one of the last all-encompassing minds. For this true Renaissance man, the whole world was a glorious appearance of ...
Continue Reading →The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization ...
Continue Reading →A collection of essays written essentially by members of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles, exploring certain ...
Continue Reading →In the history of Renaissance thought, Guicciardini’s Ricordi occupy a place of singular importance. Few works of the sixteenth century allow us so penetrating an ...
Continue Reading →Erasmus’ Adagia has been called ‘one of the world’s biggest bedside books,’ and certainly the more than 4000 proverbs and maxims gathered and commented on ...
Continue Reading →Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form.In 1572, Montaigne ...
Continue Reading →The young student should, in the first place, acquire a knowledge of perspective, to enable him to give to every object its proper dimensions: after ...
Continue Reading →Giordano Bruno’s notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution ...
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