Newton and the Netherlands How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden
Leiden University Press
2012
Amsterdam : [2012] |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Open Access e-Books
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419773506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
