03256nam 22006015 450 991059004620332120251009103355.09783031019647(electronic bk.)978303101963010.1007/978-3-031-01964-7(MiAaPQ)EBC7078023(Au-PeEL)EBL7078023(CKB)24748098800041(DE-He213)978-3-031-01964-7(OCoLC)1344014531(EXLCZ)992474809880004120220826d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDefending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century /by Pietro Daniel Omodeo1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2022.1 online resource (236 pages)Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,2215-0064 ;62Print version: Omodeo, Pietro Daniel Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031019630 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1. Cartesianismus-Streit at Frankfurt an der Oder: Johannes Placentinus and His Opponents, 1653-1656 -- Chapter 2. Nature and Scripture: Confessional Networks and Cross-Confessional Exegetic Problems -- Chapter 3. A Cartesian-Scholastic Controversy over the Origin of Life Opposing Frankfurt and Wittenberg, 1659-1660 -- Chapter 4. The Mechanization of Astrology, 1661-1665 -- Chapter 5. Placentinus’s Cometary Correspondence with Hevelius and Lubieniecki -- Chapter 6. Medical and Demonological Approaches to Descartes’s Psychophysical Dualism: Andreae and Brecht -- Chapter 7. Cartesian Bodies: Experiments on Embalmment -- Chapter 8. The Cultural Politics of Cartesianism.This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. It investigates the broad context of that discussion, which was at once scientific, cultural, political and socio-institutional. Chapter by chapter, the book sheds light on the most relevant aspects of the environment of the time. It is aimed at historians of science and philosophy, as well as scholars investigating German-speaking Europe of the 17th century.Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,2215-0064 ;62PhilosophyArtsDesignPhilosophyArtsDesignPhilosophy.Arts.Design.Philosophy.Arts.Design.194149.709431509032Omodeo Pietro Daniel931433MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910590046203321Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia2908198UNINA