Oltre il mondo che vediamo. L’immagine dell’infinito tra Cusano e Leonardo

by Annarita Angelini

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Extent: 146 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Earth & Life Sciences 

Series: Pansophia. Testi e studi sulla modernita

Series volume number: 14

Language: Italian

Paperback (Published)

(January 2026)

ISBN: 9788822295187

Price: $35.00

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Seeing the invisible, measuring the infinite, controlling motion, representing absence, drawing the horizon: these were the aspirations not only of mystics and magicians, but also of those mathematicians, philosophers and artists who, between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, cultivated the audacity to venture beyond the Herculean pillars of late medieval science. In this volume, Cusanus and Leonardo are presented as examples of the pursuit of those aspirations in an attempt to push the boundaries of rational knowledge not by denying reason but by enhancing its possibilities to the point of contradicting reason itself. The goal, which both of them share with other contemporaries, was to represent with scientific coherence an expanded hyper-reality that also included the realms of the possible and the thinkable.

  • By (author) Annarita Angelini