TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jorink,Eric
AU  - Maas,Ad
TI  - Newton and the Netherlands: how Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Dutch republic 
SN  - 9789400600553
AV  - QC16 .N498 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Leiden University Press
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Physics
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Natural theology
KW  - Philosophy, Dutch
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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