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Luthy Christoph |
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David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) : an enigmatic figure in the history of philosophy and science / / Christoph Luthy |
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Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2012 |
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Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012] |
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©2013 |
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9781283698382 |
1283698382 |
9789048516803 |
9048516803 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands (HSSN) |
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Philosophers - Netherlands |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Table Of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introducing Gorlæus -- Chapter 2. Gorlæus' Two Treatises -- Chapter 3. Gorlæus' Life -- Chapter 4. Gorlæus' Place In The History Of Seventeenth-Century Thought -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology. The aim of this book is to shed light on Gorlaeus' family circumstances, his education at Franeker and Leiden, and on the virulent Arminian crisis which provided the context within which his work was written. It also |
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attempts to define Gorlaeus' place in the history of Dutch philosophy and to assess the influence that it exercised in the evolution of philosophy and science, and notably in early Cartesian circles. Christoph LuÌthy is professor of the history of philosophy and science at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. |
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UNINA9910946916303321 |
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Ellis Jim |
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Mythologies of Outer Space |
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Calgary : , : University of Calgary Press, , 2025 |
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©2024 |
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1-77385-589-1 |
1-77385-590-5 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Calgary Institute for the Humanities Series ; ; v.4 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- How we let the moon die, & why it isn’t dead -- Imaginary voyages to the moon: lucian & his legacy -- Lucian’s voyage to the moon -- Space is part of the land: reconsidering the relationships between astronomy research, outer space exploration & colonialism -- Fifty years at the rothney -- Life in a parallel universe: the biocene -- “A kind of continuous conceptual drunkenness”? -- Science fiction that might have been, or the outer spaces of the gibson collection of speculative fiction -- Stellar Sequence -- In conversation with naomi potter -- Galaxy Series -- David Hoffos: On outer & inner space -- The book of the damned -- Afterword -- Appendix: UN moon treaty, “agreement governing the activities of states on the moon & other celestial bodies” (december 5, 1979) -- Contributors |
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Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the |
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world to the search for alien life, the stories found in the shapes of constellations to the expansive imaginings of science fiction, there has always been life up there, at the very least, for our imaginations. Mythologies of Outer Space brings together academics and artists to explore diverse imaginings of outer space. It examines questions that, in a world where outer space is increasingly accessible, are no longer only science fiction. Is outer space terra nullius, open for settlement? What if there is life beyond earth? Will we repeat the mistakes of the colonial age on other planets? Should parts of outer space be protected, like nature reserves? What about resource extraction? Do celestial bodies, like the moon, have rights? Astronaut Robert Thirsk, Mi’kmaw astronomer Hilding Neilson, digital humanities scholar Chris Pak, and outer space archaeologist Alice Gorman, among others, are joined by artists including David Hoffos and Dianne Bos, literary scholars, art critics, scientists, and a poet to explore how humanity thinks about outer space in this joyful, curious book. |
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