Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic / / edited by Eric Jorink and Ad Maas
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 2012 |
| Amsterdam : , : Leiden University Press, , [2012] | |
| ©[2012] | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 509 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy, Dutch |
| Natural theology | |
| Natural history - Philosophy | |
| Physics - Philosophy | |
| Natural history - Netherlands | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato: | wetenschap algemeen |
| popular science | |
| Amsterdam | |
| Christiaan Huygens | |
| Herman Boerhaave | |
| Isaac Newton | |
| Leiden | |
| Natural philosophy | |
| Netherlands | |
| Newtonianism | |
| Pieter van Musschenbroek | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | MaasAd <1970-> |
| JorinkEric | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Newton and the Netherlands |
| ISBN: | 94-006-0055-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910141548403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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