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    • Edition number 1st ed. 2022
    • Publisher Springer International Publishing
    • Date of Publication 19 May 2022
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783030998219
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages246 pages
    • Size 235x155 mm
    • Weight 553 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations VII, 246 p. 1 illus. Illustrations, black & white
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    This book examines the philosophical and scientific achievements of Sir Kenelm Digby, a successful English diplomat, privateer and natural philosopher of the mid-1600s. Not widely remembered today, Digby is one of the most intriguing figures in the history of early modern philosophers. Among scholars, he is known for his attempt to reconcile what perhaps seem to be irreconcilable philosophical frameworks: Aristotelianism and early modern mechanism.

    This contributed volume offers the first full-length treatment of Digby’s work and of the unique position he occupied in early modern intellectual history. It explores key aspects of Digby’s metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical method, and offers a new appraisal of his contributions to early modern natural philosophy and mathematics.

    A dozen contributors offer their expert insight into such topics as

    • Body, quantity, and measures in Digby's natural philosophy
    • Ecumenism and common notions in Digby
    • Aristotelianism and accidents in Digby's philosophy
    • Digby on body and soul
    • Digby on method and experiments

    This book volume will be of benefit to a broad audience of scholars, educators, and students of the history of early modern science and philosophy.

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    Table of Contents:

    Part I: Metaphysics.- Chapter 1. Digby and the Aristotelians (Dan Garber).- Chapter 2. Digby on the Categories (Han Thomas Adriaenssen).- Chapter 3. Quantity, Body and Measures in Digby’s Philosophy (Laura Georgescu).- Chapter 4. Sir Kenelm Digby and the Middle State of Souls (John Henry).- Part II: Method and Epistemology.- Chapter 5. Ecumenism and Common Notions in Digby, Charleton and the Early Leibniz (Andreas Blank).- Chapter 6. Digby and the Philosophical Lexicon (Seth Lobis).- Chapter 7. Digby on Logic (Martine Pécharman).- Chapter 8. Two Treatises in One Volume. Kenelm Digby between Body and Soul (Lodi Nauta).- Part III: Natural Philosophy.- Chpater 9. From Metaphysics to Geometry. The scientific Worlds of Kenelm Digby and Thomas White (Philip Beeley).- Chapter 10. Digby’s Chemical Investigations and his Discourse on the Vegetation of Plants (Antonio Clericuzio).- Chpater 11. On Bodies and their Orbs. Explaining Interactions (Dana Jalobeanu).- Chapter 12. Kenelm Digby and Galileo’s theories of Motion (Stephen Clucas).

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