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The Spatial Reformation - Euclid Between Man, Cosmos, and God (Hardcover)
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The Spatial Reformation - Euclid Between Man, Cosmos, and God (Hardcover)
Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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In The Spatial Reformation, Michael J. Sauter offers a sweeping
history of the way Europeans conceived of three-dimensional space,
including the relationship between Earth and the heavens, between
1350 and 1850. He argues that this "spatial reformation" provoked a
reorganization of knowledge in the West that was arguably as
important as the religious Reformation. Notably, it had its own
sacred text, which proved as central and was as ubiquitously
embraced: Euclid's Elements. Aside from the Bible, no other work
was so frequently reproduced in the early modern era. According to
Sauter, its penetration and suffusion throughout European thought
and experience call for a deliberate reconsideration not only of
what constitutes the intellectual foundation of the early modern
era but also of its temporal range. The Spatial Reformation
contends that space is a human construct: that is, it is a concept
that arises from the human imagination and gets expressed
physically in texts and material objects. Sauter begins his
examination by demonstrating how Euclidean geometry, when it was
applied fully to the cosmos, estranged God from man, enabling the
breakthrough to heliocentrism and, by extension, the discovery of
the New World. Subsequent chapters provide detailed analyses of the
construction of celestial and terrestrial globes, Albrecht Dürer's
engraving Melencolia, the secularization of the natural history of
the earth and man, and Hobbes's rejection of Euclid's sense of
space and its effect on his political theory. Sauter's exploration
culminates in the formation of a new anthropology in the eighteenth
century that situated humanity in reference to spaces and places
that human eyes had not actually seen. The Spatial Reformation
illustrates how these disparate advancements can be viewed as
resulting expressly from early modernity's embrace of Euclidean
geometry.
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