Physics At Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Leiden Philosophy And The New Science In The University

Author : Edward Grant Ruestow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789024715572
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Physics at Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Leiden: Philosophy and the New Science in the University written by Edward Grant Ruestow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1973-07-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 result of the attitudes characteristic of the small group of permanent residents at the schools, the academic scholars. This conservatism, however, was not everywhere equally efficacious. In the sixteenth century, the universities of northern Italy, Padua above all, had nurtured an intellectual ferment of considerable significance to the rise of the new science, and they continued to be penetrated by the influence of that science throughout the seventeenth century. The Uni versity of Oxford momentarily played host to' leading members of the English scientific community during the Commonwealth period, and Cambridge was shortly to boast the genius of Isaac Newton. Indeed, a small number of the one-hundred-odd universities in Europe strove more or less purposefully to come to grips with the new science and to in at least, within the body of learning for which they corporate facets of it, 2 held themselves responsible. Among the most notable of these more progressive schools must be included the University of Leiden, recently founded by the Lowlanders in revolt against the King of Spain, Philip II. The doors of the University of Leiden had first opened, to be sure, in the midst of rebellion, and had been forced open, as it were, by rumors of peace. In 1572, the revolt, with the Calvinists now clearly in the van, acquired what was to prove an enduring foothold in the maritime prov inces of Holland and Zeeland.

Author : E. G. Ruestow
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ISBN 13 : 9789401024648
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Physics at Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Leiden written by E. G. Ruestow and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E.G. Ruestow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401024634
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Physics at Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Leiden: Philosophy and the New Science in the University written by E.G. Ruestow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 result of the attitudes characteristic of the small group of permanent residents at the schools, the academic scholars. This conservatism, however, was not everywhere equally efficacious. In the sixteenth century, the universities of northern Italy, Padua above all, had nurtured an intellectual ferment of considerable significance to the rise of the new science, and they continued to be penetrated by the influence of that science throughout the seventeenth century. The Uni versity of Oxford momentarily played host to' leading members of the English scientific community during the Commonwealth period, and Cambridge was shortly to boast the genius of Isaac Newton. Indeed, a small number of the one-hundred-odd universities in Europe strove more or less purposefully to come to grips with the new science and to in at least, within the body of learning for which they corporate facets of it, 2 held themselves responsible. Among the most notable of these more progressive schools must be included the University of Leiden, recently founded by the Lowlanders in revolt against the King of Spain, Philip II. The doors of the University of Leiden had first opened, to be sure, in the midst of rebellion, and had been forced open, as it were, by rumors of peace. In 1572, the revolt, with the Calvinists now clearly in the van, acquired what was to prove an enduring foothold in the maritime prov inces of Holland and Zeeland.

Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521572439
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science written by David C. Lindberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-17 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.

Author : Knud Haakonssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521867436
Total Pages : 790 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy written by Knud Haakonssen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.

Author : G N Cantor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134977522
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Companion to the History of Modern Science written by G N Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and later across the world * Presented in clear, non-technical language * Extensive indexes of Subjects and Names `Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction ... an ambitious and successful work.' - Times Literary Supplement `This work is an essential resource for libraries everywhere. For specialist science libraries willing to keep just one encyclopaedic guide to history, for undergraduate libraries seeking to provide easily accessible information, for the devisers of university curricula, for the modern social historian or even the eclectic scientist taking a break from simply making history, this is the book for you.' - Times Higher Education Supplement `A pleasure to read with a carefully chosen typeface, well organized pages and ample margins ... it is very easy to find one's way around. This is a book which will be consulted widely.' - Technovation `This is a commendably easy book to use.' - British Journal of the History of Science `Scholars from other areas entering this field, students taking the vertical approach and teachers coming from any direction cannot fail to find this an invaluable text.' - History of Science Journal

Author : Daniel Garber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521537216
Total Pages : 676 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy written by Daniel Garber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Clark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226109404
Total Pages : 586 pages
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Download or read book The Sciences in Enlightened Europe written by William Clark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "englightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academics and boisterous clubs, plans for violent wars and for universal peace, are all relocated in the landscape of enlightened Europe. The contributors show how changing forms of discipline, machinery, and instrumentation affected the emergence of new kinds of knowledge; consider how institutions of public rate taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe. Covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, both in the principal European countries and in areas peripheral to Europe, the book also includes ample illustrations and an extensive bibliography. Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment. -- from back cover.

Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521348041
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution written by David C. Lindberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-27 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium offering broad reflections on the Scientific Revolution from a spectrum of scholars engaged in the study of 16th and 17th century science. Many accepted views and interpretations of the scientific revolution are challenged.

Author : John C. Powers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226677605
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Download or read book Inventing Chemistry written by John C. Powers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. The primary focus of this study is Boerhaave’s educational philosophy, and Powers traces its development from Boerhaave’s early days as a student in Leiden through his publication of the Elementa chemiae in 1732. Powers reveals how Boerhaave restructured and reinterpreted various practices from diverse chemical traditions (including craft chemistry, Paracelsian medical chemistry, and alchemy), shaping them into a chemical course that conformed to the pedagogical and philosophical norms of Leiden University’s medical faculty. In doing so, Boerhaave gave his chemistry a coherent organizational structure and philosophical foundation and thus transformed an artisanal practice into an academic discipline. Inventing Chemistry is essential reading for historians of chemistry, medicine, and academic life.