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Newton and the Netherlands how Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Dutch republic / edited by Eric Jorink and Ad Maas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amsterdam : Leiden University Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (256 pages :) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789400600553
  • 9400600550
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QC16 .N498 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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 HermanBoerhaave? / 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 RadicalEnlightenment / Jordy Geerlings -- Newtonianism at the Dutch Universities during the Enlightenment: The teaching of 'philosophy' from 's Gravesande to Van Swinden / Henri Krop.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 HermanBoerhaave? / 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 RadicalEnlightenment / Jordy Geerlings -- Newtonianism at the Dutch Universities during the Enlightenment: The teaching of 'philosophy' from 's Gravesande to Van Swinden / 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.

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