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THE PREPARATION OF RENAISSANCE: DIETRICH OF FREIBERG, MEISTER ECKHART, NICHOLAS OF CUSA; pp. 265–303 [PDF]
Trames, 2014 The Renaissance can surely be called a great amalgam of diverse historical, cultural and philosophical impulses. Its outwardly impressive traits hide a pedigree of a confused and enigmatic nature that had combined the bulk of Christian, ancient and ...
Rein Undusk
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Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, 2021 The concept of art is a lens through which one can explore the thought of Nicho las of Cusa. He uses this notion throughout his work in order to address the pro ductive dynamism of the divine mind as well as the human mind. With a focus on the human arts
José González Ríos
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Envisioning Geometry: Architecture in the Grip of Perspective
, 2016 This book chapter examines the early developments of perspective in 15th century Florence, arguing that the conception of pictorial space in the Early Renaissance both drew upon late Medieval notions of luminary space and anticipated the 'geometrisation'
Temple, Nicholas
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Nicholas of Cusa on Rational Perception [PDF]
, 2018 Despite being one of the major figures in late medieval thought and being the subject of numerous studies, certain topics concerning the Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) remain in need of further investigation.
Kny, Christian, Silva, José Filipe
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Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 36, Issue 2, 5 January 2026.Rationally‐designed advanced carbon‐based single‐atom catalysts with isolated CuN2O2 active sites anchored in N,O‐doped porous carbon facilitate water dissociation and nitrate reduction, accelerating proton supply for efficient electrosynthesis of ammonia.
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O Conhecimento como desvio: da infinita mobilidade do pensamento em Nicolau de Cusa [PDF]
, 2012 Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2011No intuito de designar o processo de pensamento, o filósofo Nicolau de Cusa (1401-1464 ...
Testa, Letícia
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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 311-336, April 2025.Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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Mystic doubt: In search of pure consciousness
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2025.AbstractTranscendental Meditation (TM) holds that the essence of reality is “pure consciousness.” This piece contrasts three interpretations of their meditative trance: (i) TM doctrine, and (ii) scientific physicalism, (iii) with my own meditative experience.
Olof Ohlson
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Internationale Zeitschrift für KulturkomparatistikNothing other than a carbuncle The carbuncle as a Christological symbol of atmosphere in Nicholas of Cusa - with reference to the late antique and medieval gemstone allegory.
Pilar Bücker
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