Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Charles de Bovelles on Platonism, Theurgy, and Intellectual Difficulty

Oosterhoff, Richard J.

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“…51 However, plotinus (Enneads VI, 8) is not only concerned with the metaphysical side of such contemplation but also points out that contemplation is a source of action and actually entails a civic form of engagement. 52 For the Anglo-Welsh Neoplatonist Edward Herbert (1583-1648, readiness to know oneself would make religious peace and confessional unity attainable. 53 This is also echoed by the cambridge platonist ralph cudworth (1617-1688), who posits that human responsibility is grounded in the capacity for self-awareness.…”

Section: The Justice Of the Philosopher-king: Wisdommentioning

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The Neoplatonic Renaissance from the Thames to the Ganges

Gommans¹

2022

India After World History

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This unabashedly intuitive essay introduces Neoplatonism as a new category in global intellectual history. It highlights one particular moment in time when Neoplatonism became the cutting-edge, avant-garde intellectual force in both the Latinate West and the persianate East. more specifically, by comparing Stuart England and mughal India the essay uncovers a hitherto silent cord of commensurable royal courts stretching from the Thames to the Ganges. During a long sixteenth century (c. 1450-1650), this courtly continuum was the dazzling stage of a global Neoplatonic renaissance. Whereas in Stuart England it showed primarily in emblematic fiction, in mughal India it was an imperial dream come true.

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Section: The Justice Of the Philosopher-king: Wisdommentioning

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The Neoplatonic Renaissance from the Thames to the Ganges

Gommans¹

2022

India After World History

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“…He was read by Renaissance authors, and particularly his "coincidence of opposites" was taken up when expressing the dialectics of finitude and infinity, Creator and creation, truth and method, and thus was welcome in a number of innovative or non-scholastic currents, including Christian Kabbala (Meier-Oeser 1989). The edition of Cusanus' Opera (Paris 1514) by the humanist Jacques Lefèvres d'Etaples was paradigmatic of the appreciation of Cusanus among humanist mystics, including Charles de Bovelles (Emery 1984;Oosterhoff 2019; Yelena Matusevich in Izbicki and Bellitto 2002). The preface praised Cusanus' humanist erudition and style in combination with his practical sense and mathematical achievements and their import on piety.…”

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Nicholas of Cusa

Blum

2020

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

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A Lathe and the Material Sphaera: Astronomical Technique at the Origins of the Cosmographical Handbook

Oosterhoff

2020

De Sphaera of Johannes De Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period

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Even though cosmographers loved to drape their discipline in the ancient dignity of Ptolemy, actual manuals of cosmography often depended on Johannes de Sacrobosco's medieval introduction to spherical astronomy. In fact, certain strains of cosmography shared organization, principles, and even visual apparatus with Sacrobosco's Sphaera and its growing commentary tradition, to the extent that these cosmographies can be seen as themselves commenting on the Sphaera. This paper traces the origins of certain Renaissance cosmographical handbooks to the commentary on the Sphaera by Lefèvre d'Étaples and his colleagues at Paris around 1495. By focusing on the visual elements of this commentary, its instructions for calculating techniques, and the emergence of the "lathe" model of the "material sphere," this chapter argues that one of the mixed mathematical genres now seen as most characteristic of the Renaissance-cosmography-in fact was based on a medieval textbook. 1 I wish to thank Matteo Valleriani for helpful comments, the other contributors to this volume for stimulating conversation, and an anonymous reviewer for a useful suggestion.

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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Charles de Bovelles on Platonism, Theurgy, and Intellectual Difficulty

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

The Neoplatonic Renaissance from the Thames to the Ganges

The Neoplatonic Renaissance from the Thames to the Ganges

Nicholas of Cusa

A Lathe and the Material Sphaera: Astronomical Technique at the Origins of the Cosmographical Handbook

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