English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

The article examines the influence of neo-Platonic discourse on scientific knowledge and liberal arts in England and Europe in the Early Modern period. Aspiring to overwhelm the impact of scholasticism and Aristotle, humanists turned to Plato’s philosophy. The publication of the complete works of Plato by M. Ficino preceded the beginning of the scientific revolution and analytical interest in the details of the physical world. Plato’s philosophy reached England through the correspondence between M. Ficino and J. Colet. In the mid-16th century, Plato’s texts, along with those by Aristotle, became the backbone of English university education. From the Platonic Academy came the idea of the open scientific and educational space for Europeans and the English. This allowed advancing new knowledge fast. Gresham College and the Royal Society of London were founded in England; public lectures were being delivered. The concept of the visual, which can be traced to Plato’s doctrine, became the basis for the observation sciences and the system of argumentation and providing evidence in the ‘new philosophy’. Appealing to Plato’s understanding of geometry, harmony and man made it possible to assign the status of liberal arts to pictorial art and anatomy which had been previously thought to belong to the field of ‘techne’ - crafts requiring physical labour. Ideas of Plato, neo-Platonists and representatives of the ’new philosophy’ can be found in the poetical works by such authors as Ph. Sydney, C. Marlowe, W. Shakespeare and B. Jonson. The anatomical theories of A. Vesalius and W. Harvey, observational astronomy of T. Brahe, J. Kepler, G. Galilei and theoretical and methodological constructions of G. Bruno, F. Bacon, R. Descartes and I. Newton — all of these made use of Plato’s notions of harmony, proportion and measure. This gave an opportunity to describe and measure observable objects accurately.

Научное знание, неоплатонизм и свободные искусства в культуре Англии раннего Нового времени