Jamie C. Kassler

Newton's Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319720531
• Artikelnr.: 52941063

Autorenporträt

In 1991 the author was elected a Fellow (1991) of the Australian Academy of the Humanities for contributions to musicological theory; in 2003 she was a recipient of the Centenary Medal for services to Australian Society and the Humanities in the Study of Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Part I. The sensorium in Newton's texts: 1. Preliminary remarks. 1.1. The data.- Part II. The human sensorium in context: 2.1. Newton on the sensory-motor system. 2.2. Summary and comment.- Part III. The human sensorium in wider context. 3.1. William Briggs on the visual sensory system. 3.2. Thomas Willis on the nervous system. 3.3. The spectator in the dark room.- Part IV. Generalising to the divine sensorium: 4.1. Taking stock. 4.2. The divine spectator and the cosmic spectacle. 4.3. Afterword: Is infinite space a container?.- Conclusion.