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The Paramaterial Phantasy

“Their phantasies differ”: The Phantasy in Raleigh’s translation of Sextus Empiricus

The “Sceptick,” first published in 1651 and attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, offers one of the first known English translations, albeit unacknowledged, of portions of Sextus Empiricus’ Outlines. While it is not a pure translation, and while it only offers an expurgated version of Sextus’ classical skeptical work, it is undoubtedly based on portions of […]

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Posted in Scholarship, Philosophical Skepticism, Shaping Sense Tagged phantasms, Phantasy, philosophical skepticism, Sextus Empiricus, skepticism, early modern senses, Raleigh, early modern, history of senses, paramaterial

“In my mind’s eye”: Species, Phantasms, Skepticism, and the Phantasy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and in Early Modern Theater

Part I. “He thinks tis but our fantasy”: The Ontology and Epistemology of Ghosts and Spirits In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the skeptical and possibly Stoic Horatio reveals to the melancholic eponymous prince that he has seen a phantasm. Before Horatio can even reveal his harrowing yet problematic tale of seeing a “form like [Hamlet’s] father,” […]

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Posted in Scholarship, William Shakespeare, Early Modern Senses, Philosophical Skepticism, Shaping Sense Tagged cultural studies, Rene Descartes, renaissance, perimaterial, Descartes, Raleigh, senses, ghosts, early modern, Ralegh, Shakespeare, spirits, epistemology, supernatural, skepticism, drama, history of science, Galenic humoralism, vision, Johann Weyer, history of the senses, accounts of demons and witchcraft, Reginald Scot, imagination, Hamlet, optics, Robert Burton, Malleus Maleficarum, paramaterial, history of vision, witches, Phantasy, William Shakespeare, delusions, philosophical skepticism, early modern senses

Double Vision: Thomas Hobbes’ Eye in “A Minute or First Draft of the Optiques” (BL Harley MS 3360)

NB: I just discovered this image so this post will be brief and very tentative. I hope to follow it up with more extensive research soon and will post a more expansive discussion of this image at a later time. Last week, while I was working on revising a post on vision in Hobbes’ Leviathan […]

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Posted in Shaping Sense, Tangents, Early Modern Senses, Scholarship, Philosophical Skepticism Tagged British Library MS 3360, "A Minute or First Draft on the Optiques", history of science, ocular anatomy, history of the senses, the eye, Kepler, history of vision, manuscripts, Leviathan, paramaterial, Short Tract of First Principles, vesalius, vision, Thomas Hobbes 3 Comments

The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy. Part One.

This entry is part [part not set] of 2 in the series The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy.

The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy Part I. The Three Fleshly Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy Augustine famously discusses the three eyes of a perceiver. He details that, first, there is the eye of the flesh. Second, […]

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Posted in Philosophical Skepticism, Shaping Sense, Early Modern Senses Tagged lens, optical anatomy, anatomy, optics, Augustine, paramaterial, crystalline humor, Platter, Descartes, senses, early modern, vesalius, eye, vision, history of science, history of the senses, Kepler

The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy. Part Two.

This entry is part [part not set] of 2 in the series The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy.

The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy Part II. The Revolution of the Eye and De-centering the Eye’s Sovereign In the first section, I discussed Andre du Laurens’ extended metaphorical treatment of the eye’s structure. There, du Laurens […]

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Posted in Shaping Sense, Scholarship, Early Modern Senses, Philosophical Skepticism Tagged optics, paramaterial, Ambroise Paré, science, anatomy, senses, Augustine, sight, Descartes, skepticism, early modern, vision, Helkiah Crooke, History of medicine, history of science, Kepler

“A mere Phantasm or Imagination”: Philosophical Skepticism and Joseph Mede’s Crisis of Sense

Hitherto, I have been focusing on the relationships established among the objects of the world and the objects of the mind predominantly in popular sixteenth- and seventeenth-century natural philosophy. I do so, in part, because the divisions between perception and reality, and between appearance and reality, for contemporary critical practice, are a given and are […]

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Posted in Early Modern Senses, Philosophical Skepticism, Shaping Sense Tagged Montaigne, paramaterial, phantasms, Phantasy, Descartes, philosophical skepticism, early modern, senses, history of ideas, Sextus Empiricus, history of philosophy, skepticism, history of science, species, imagination, Joseph Mede 4 Comments

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