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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12123404.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 380 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262082926 (HC : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog subject "190 21".
- catalog subject "Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.".
- catalog subject "BD348 .H37 2001".
- catalog subject "Infinite History.".
- catalog subject "Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.".
- catalog subject "Perspective (Philosophy) History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Infinity and perspective / Karsten Harries.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".