Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction / Paul Bakker , Christoph Lüthy and Claudia Swan -- Imagination, Images, and (Im)Mortality / Sander W. de Boer -- 'Imaginatio' and Visual Representation in Twelfth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy: Ibn al-Haytham, Stephen of Pisa (and Antioch), (Ps.) Māshāʾallāh, and (Ps.) Thābit ibn Qurra / Barbara Obrist -- Minerva in the Forge of Vulcan: Ingegno, Fatica, and Imagination in Early Florentine Art Theory / David Zagoury -- Bernardino Telesio on Spirit, Sense, and Imagination / Leen Spruit -- Giovan Battista Della Porta's Imagination / Sergius Kodera -- Imagination in the Chamber of Sleep: Karel van Mander on Somnus and Morpheus* / Christine Göttler -- Agere Corporaliter: Otto Vaenius's Theory of the Imagination / Ralph Dekoninck -- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Views on Mathematical Imagination / Guy Claessens -- What Does a Diagram Prove that Other Images Do Not? Images and Imagination in the Kepler-Fludd Controversy / Christoph Lüthy -- Aristotelian Proportioned Images and Descartes's Dynamic Imagining / Dennis L. Sepper -- Schematism, Imagination, and Pure Intuition in Kant / Sybille Krämer -- Back Matter -- Index Nominum.

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How were the relations among image, imagination and cognition characterized in the period 1500 - 1800? The authors of this volume argue that in those three centuries, a thoroughgoing transformation affected the following issues: (i) what it meant to understand phenomena in the natural world (cognition); (ii) how such phenomena were visualized or pictured (images, including novel types of diagrams, structural models, maps, et cetera); and (iii) what role was attributed to the faculty of the imagination (psychology, creativity). The essays collected in this volume examine the new conceptions that were advanced and the novel ways of comprehending and expressing the relations among image, imagination, and cognition. They also shed light, from a variety of perspectives, on the elusive nexus of conceptions and practices.

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