Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance

Christoph Lüthy, Ph.D. (1995) is Professor of the History of Philosophy and Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). His publications concern mainly the history of matter theories and the development and logic of ‘epistemic images’. Elena Nicoli, Ph.D. (2017) is an Associate Researcher at the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Her research and publications mainly concern the reception of Lucretius and Epicureanism in the Renaissance.

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1 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: An Overview


 Christoph Lüthy and Elena Nicoli





2 Atomism in Sixteenth-Century Italian Commentaries on Lucretius


 Elena Nicoli





3 Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology


 Elisabeth Moreau





4 Pores, Parts, and Powers in Sixteenth-Century Commentaries on Meteorologica IV


 Craig Martin





5 Atoms, Corpuscles, and Minima in the Renaissance: The Case of Nicolaus Biesius (1516–1573)


 Christoph Lüthy





6 Mechanical Arts and Biological Development on the Sixteenth-Century World Stage: The Paracelsian Mechanical Philosophy of Petrus Severinus


 Jole Shackelford





7 Democritus in Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno


 Leen Spruit





8 Nicholas Hill, an English Atomist


 Sandra Plastina





9 Finite God and Infinite Space: Conrad Vorstius and David Gorlaeus


 Kuni Sakamoto





10 Atomism, Mechanism, and Chymistry in the Natural Philosophy of Walter Warner


 Stephen Clucas





11 Isaac Newton’s Atomist Sources: The Case of Bernhard Varenius


 William R. Newman





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