Full Description
How were the relations among image, imagination and cognition characterized in the period 1500 - 1800? The authors of this volume argue that in those three centuries, a thoroughgoing transformation affected the following issues: (i) what it meant to understand phenomena in the natural world (cognition); (ii) how such phenomena were visualized or pictured (images, including novel types of diagrams, structural models, maps, etc.); and (iii) what role was attributed to the faculty of the imagination (psychology, creativity). The essays collected in this volume examine the new conceptions that were advanced and the novel ways of comprehending and expressing the relations among image, imagination, and cognition. They also shed light, from a variety of perspectives, on the elusive nexus of conceptions and practices.
Contents
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Paul Bakker, Christoph Lüthy, and Claudia Swan
1 Imagination, Images and (Im)Mortality
Sander W. De Boer
2 'Imaginatio' and Visual Representation in Twelfth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy: Ibn al-Haytham, Stephen of Pisa (and Antioch), (Ps.) Māshāʾallāh, and (Ps.) Thābit ibn Qurra
Barbara Obrist
3 Minerva in the Forge of Vulcan: Ingegno, Fatica, and Imagination in Early Florentine Art Theory
David Zagoury
4 Bernardino Telesio on Spirit, Sense, and Imagination
Leen Spruit
5 Giovan Battista Della Porta's Imagination
Sergius Kodera
6 Imagination in the Chamber of Sleep: Karel van Mander on Somnus and Morpheus
Christine Göttler
7 Agere Corporaliter: Otto Vaenius's Theory of the Imagination
Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Aline Smeesters
8 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Views on Mathematical Imagination
Guy Claessens
9 What Does a Diagram Prove that Other Images Do Not? Images and Imagination in the Kepler-Fludd Controversy
Christoph Lüthy
10 Aristotelian Proportioned Images and Descartes's Dynamic Imagining
Dennis L. Sepper
11 Schematism, Imagination, and Pure Intuition in Kant
Sybille Krämer
Index Nominum
