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  1. Francesco Patrizi’s two books on space: geometry, mathematics, and dialectic beyond Aristotelian science.Amos Edelheit - 2009 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 40 (3):243-257.
    Francesco Patrizi was a competent Greek scholar, a mathematician, and a Neoplatonic thinker, well known for his sharp critique of Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition. In this article I shall present, in the first part, the importance of the concept of a three-dimensional space which is regarded as a body, as opposed to the Aristotelian two-dimensional space or interval, in Patrizi’s discussion of physical space. This point, I shall argue, is an essential part of Patrizi’s overall critique of Aristotelian science, (...)
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