Arielle Saiber
Ashgate
Hardback
202
2005
Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language brings to the fore a sixteenth-century philosopher's role in early modern Europe as a bridge between science and literature or more specifically between the spatial paradigm of geometry and that of language. Through analysis of Bruno's writings Saiber exposes the verbal geometry of his language and shows how his writing necessitates a crafting of space and is in essence a lexicon of spatial concepts.This study constitutes an original contribution both to scholarship on Bruno and to the broader fields of early modern scientific and literary studies.
Ashgate
Hardback
202
2005
Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language brings to the fore a sixteenth-century philosopher's role in early modern Europe as a bridge between science and literature or more specifically between the spatial paradigm of geometry and that of language. Through analysis of Bruno's writings Saiber exposes the verbal geometry of his language and shows how his writing necessitates a crafting of space and is in essence a lexicon of spatial concepts.This study constitutes an original contribution both to scholarship on Bruno and to the broader fields of early modern scientific and literary studies.