Theories of colour from Democritus to Descartes / edited by Véronique Decaix and Katerina Ierodiakonou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Decaix, Véronique, editor.

Ierodiakonou, Katerina, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Global perspectives on the history of natural philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 298 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Biography/History:

V̌ronique Decaix is Associate Professor at the Universiť Paris 1 Pantȟon Sorbonne (GRAMATA, UMR SPHERE-7219) and Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focus is metaphysics and psychology during the Middle Ages, more precisely on intentionality in cognitive processes such as sensation, memory, dream, and intellection. She has recently published a monograph on Dietrich of Freiberg (2021) and co-edited two volumes, Active Cognition (2020) and Memory and Recollection in the Aristotelian Tradition (2021). Katerina Ierodiakonou is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Athens and the University of Geneva. She has published extensively on ancient and Byzantine philosophy, especially in the areas of epistemology and logic. She is currently working on a monograph about ancient theories of colour, as well as on an edition, translation, and commentary of Theophrastus' De sensibus and of Michael Psellos' paraphrase of Aristotle's De interpretation.

Contents:

Democritus on the atomic shapes of colours / Attila Németh

Light and colour in Averroes between Alexander of Aphrodisias and Ibn Bāǧǧa / Jean-Baptiste Brenet

Colours in bodies, in the intermedium, and in the eye in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Tawrin Baker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 29, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Theories of colour from Democritus to Descartes

ISBN:

9781003457305

1003457304

9781040150719

1040150713

9781040150856

1040150853

Publisher Number:

40032721829

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