The Spatial Reformation by Sauter Michael J.;

Author:Sauter, Michael J.; [Sauter, Michael J.;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780812250664
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2019-01-15T07:00:00+00:00

Kant’s quote from Pope’s “Essay on Man” suggests, from another angle, the amalgamating power of heliocentrism’s space. Whereas Pope framed his own anthropology with heliocentrism’s extraterrestrials, Kant framed extraterrestrials with Pope’s anthropology. Their minds’ eyes floating through space, these eighteenth-century anthropologists looked out and back—and the continual exploration of this human space had profound anthropological consequences. As Leon Battista Alberti asked, “What now?”

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