Image, Imagination, and Cognition : Medieval and Early Modern Theory and Practice.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Imagination, Images, and (Im)Mortality -- Chapter 2 'Imaginatio' and Visual Representation in Twelfth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy: Ibn al-Haytham, Stephen of Pisa (and Antioch), (Ps.) Māshāʾallāh, and (Ps.) Thābit ibn Qurra -- Chapter 3 Minerva in the Forge of Vulcan: Ingegno, Fatica, and Imagination in Early Florentine Art Theory -- Chapter 4 Bernardino Telesio on Spirit, Sense, and Imagination -- Chapter 5 Giovan Battista Della Porta's Imagination -- Chapter 6 Imagination in the Chamber of Sleep: Karel van Mander on Somnus and Morpheus -- Chapter 7 Agere Corporaliter: Otto Vaenius's Theory of the Imagination -- Chapter 8 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Views on Mathematical Imagination -- Chapter 9 What Does a Diagram Prove that Other Images Do Not? Images and Imagination in the Kepler-Fludd Controversy -- Chapter 10 Aristotelian Proportioned Images and Descartes's Dynamic Imagining -- Chapter 11 Schematism, Imagination, and Pure Intuition in Kant -- Index Nominum.

Multiple accounts of how theories of human psychology and of image-making influenced each other in a decisive period in the history of philosophy and art.

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