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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789400600553 9400600550 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016276475  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Natural history--Netherlands.<br/>Physics--Philosophy.<br/>Natural history--Philosophy.<br/>Natural theology.<br/>Philosophy, Dutch.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC16  / .N498 2012