Main entry:

Harries, Karsten.

Title & Author:

Infinity and perspective / Karsten Harries.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.

Description:

xii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-369) and index.
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 the infinite -- Copernican revolutions -- Epilogue: astronautics and astronoetics.

Summary:

"Two spirits preside over the book: Alberti, the Renaissance author on art and architecture, whose passionate interest in perspective and point of view offers a key to modernity; and Nicolaus Cusanus, the fifteenth-century cardinal, whose work shows that such interest cannot be divorced from speculations on the infinity of God. The title Infinity and Perspective connects the two to each other and to the shape of modernity."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0262082926 (HC ; alk. paper)
9780262082921 (HC ; alk. paper)
9780262582186
026258218X

Subject:

Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
Nikolaus von Kues.
Alberti, Leon Battista.
Perspective (Philosophy) History.
Infinite History.
Perspective (Philosophie) Histoire.
Infini Histoire.
Infinite.
Perspective (Philosophy)
Philosophie
Kunst
Oneindigheid.
Moderniteit.
Perspectief.
Waarheid.
Wereldbeeld.
Perspektive.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216230
Call No.: NC748 .H3 2001
Status: Available