Francesco Patrizi da Cherso's Concept of Space and its Later Influence.
This study considers the contribution of Francesco Patrizi da Cherso (1529-1597) to the development, of the concepts of void space and an infinite universe. Patrizi plays a greater role in the development of these concepts than any other single figure in the sixteenth century, and yet his work has b...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 36; no. 6; pp. 549 - 574 |
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Nov79
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