Newton and the Netherlands how Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Dutch republic /
Newton and the Netherlands how Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Dutch republic /
edited by Eric Jorink and Ad Maas.
- Amsterdam : Leiden University Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (256 pages :) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / 'The Miracle of Our Time': How Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Netherlands / Servant of Two Masters: Fatio de Duillier between Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton / How Newtonian Was HermanBoerhaave? / The Man Who Erased Himself: Willem Jacob 's Gravesande and the Enlightenment / 'The Wisest Man to Whom this Earth Has as Yet Given Birth': Petrus van Musschenbroek and the limits of Newtonian natural philosophy / Low Country Opticks: The optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch 'Newtonianism' / Defining the Supernatural: The Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature / Anti-Newtonianism and RadicalEnlightenment / Newtonianism at the Dutch Universities during the Enlightenment: The teaching of 'philosophy' from 's Gravesande to Van Swinden / Eric Jorink and Ad Maas -- Eric Jorink and Huib Zuidervaart -- Rob Iliffe -- Rina Knoe -- Ad Maas -- Kees de Pater -- Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis -- Rienk Vermij -- Jordy Geerlings -- Henri Krop.
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.
9789400600553 9400600550
016276475 Uk
Natural history--Netherlands.
Physics--Philosophy.
Natural history--Philosophy.
Natural theology.
Philosophy, Dutch.
Electronic Books.
QC16 / .N498 2012
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / 'The Miracle of Our Time': How Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Netherlands / Servant of Two Masters: Fatio de Duillier between Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton / How Newtonian Was HermanBoerhaave? / The Man Who Erased Himself: Willem Jacob 's Gravesande and the Enlightenment / 'The Wisest Man to Whom this Earth Has as Yet Given Birth': Petrus van Musschenbroek and the limits of Newtonian natural philosophy / Low Country Opticks: The optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch 'Newtonianism' / Defining the Supernatural: The Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature / Anti-Newtonianism and RadicalEnlightenment / Newtonianism at the Dutch Universities during the Enlightenment: The teaching of 'philosophy' from 's Gravesande to Van Swinden / Eric Jorink and Ad Maas -- Eric Jorink and Huib Zuidervaart -- Rob Iliffe -- Rina Knoe -- Ad Maas -- Kees de Pater -- Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis -- Rienk Vermij -- Jordy Geerlings -- Henri Krop.
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.
9789400600553 9400600550
016276475 Uk
Natural history--Netherlands.
Physics--Philosophy.
Natural history--Philosophy.
Natural theology.
Philosophy, Dutch.
Electronic Books.
QC16 / .N498 2012