This volume is an important re-evaluation of space and spatiality in the late Renaissance and early modern period. History of science has generally reduced sixteenth and seventeenth century space to a few canonical forms. This volume gives a much needed antidote. The contributing chapters examine the period¿s staggering richness of spatiality: the geometrical, geographical, perceptual and elemental conceptualizations of space that abounded. The goal is to begin to reconstruct the amalgam of ¿spaces¿ which co-existed and cross-fertilized in the period¿s many disciplines and visions of nature. Our volume will be a valuable resource for historians of science, philosophy and art, and for cultural and literary theorists.

Opens up understanding of what space and spatiality could be and can be, and presents early modern space as a concept of enormous flexibility and centrality

1. Jonathan Regier and Koen VermeirBoundaries, Extents and Circulations, Spatiality and the Early Modern Concept of Space. An introduction.2. Roger AriewLeibniz and the Petrifying Virtue of the Place.3. Vincenzo de RisiFrancesco Patrizi and the New Geometry of Space.4. Jean SeidengartThe Inception of the Concept of Infinite Physical Space in the Time of Copernicus and Giordano Bruno.5. Delphine BellisThe Perception of Spatial Depth in Kepler's and Descartes' Optics.6. Mihnea DobreExperimental Cartesianism and the Problem of Space.7. Thibaut Maus de RolleyPutting the Devil on the Map: Demonology and Cosmography in the Renaissance.8. Alessandro ScafiAll Space Will Pass Away: The Spiritual, Spaceless and Incorporeal Heaven of Valentin Weigel (1533-1588).9. Dana JalobeanuFrancis Bacon's Experimental Construction of "Space".10. Luc PeterschmittThe Circulating Structure of Space in the17th century Chemical Tradition.