Title The judgment of sense : Renaissance naturalism and the rise of aesthestics / David Summers

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1987] ©1987

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Description xiii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Ideas in context Ideas in context. Contents Machine derived contents note: List of figures -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The primacy of sight -- 2. The fallacies of sight -- 3. The harmony of the spheres -- 4. The harmony of the senses -- 5. The common sense -- 6. Spiritus -- 7. The light of the piazza -- 8. Optics and the commonsense -- 9. Confused knowledge -- 10. Cogitation -- 11. The mechanical arts -- 12. Prudence -- 13. The spark of God -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index Analysis Arts Aesthetics Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 337-349 Subject Aesthetics. Naturalism. Perception (Philosophy) Renaissance. LC no. 86009538 ISBN 0521326753 0521386314 (paperback)

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