1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910705899903321

Titolo

Renewing our education mission : report to the National Leadership Council / / National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, , 2003

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (10 pages) : color illustrations

Soggetti

National parks and reserves - Interpretive programs - United States

Environmental education - Activity programs - United States

Experiential learning - United States

Environmental education - Activity programs

Experiential learning

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2003."



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996206784303316

Autore

Jorink E

Titolo

Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic / / edited by Eric Jorink and Ad Maas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 2012

Amsterdam : , : Leiden University Press, , [2012]

©[2012]

ISBN

94-006-0055-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Disciplina

509

Soggetti

Philosophy, Dutch

Natural theology

Natural history - Philosophy

Physics - Philosophy

Natural history - Netherlands

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Museum Boerhaave, Leiden"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

In the course of the eighteenth century, Newton's ideas (in different guises and interpretations) became a veritable hype in Dutch society. In "Newton & the Netherlands" Newton's sudden success is analyzed in great depth and put into a new perspective.