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Autore |
Jorink E |
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Titolo |
Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic / / edited by Eric Jorink and Ad Maas |
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Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 2012 |
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Amsterdam : , : Leiden University Press, , [2012] |
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©[2012] |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Open Access e-Books |
Knowledge Unlatched |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy, Dutch |
Natural theology |
Natural history - Philosophy |
Physics - Philosophy |
Natural history - Netherlands |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Museum Boerhaave, Leiden"--Cover. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction / Eric Jorink and Ad Maas -- 'The Miracle of Our Time': How Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Netherlands / Eric Jorink and Huib Zuidervaart -- Servant of Two Masters: Fatio de Duillier between Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton / Rob Iliffe -- How Newtonian Was Herman Boerhaave? / Rina Knoe -- The Man Who Erased Himself: Willem Jacob 's Gravesande and the Enlightenment / Ad Maas -- 'The Wisest Man to Whom this Earth Has as Yet Given Birth': Petrus van Musschenbroek and the limits of Newtonian natural philosophy / Kees de Pater -- Low Country Opticks: The optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch 'Newtonianism' / Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis -- Defining the Supernatural: The Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature / Rienk Vermij -- Anti-Newtonianism and Radical Enlightenment / Jordy Geerlings -- Newtonianism at the Dutch Universities during the Enlightenment: The teaching of 'philosophy' from 's Gravesande to Van Swinden / Henri Krop. |
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