Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Spy or a Go-between ? Jan Huygen van Linschoten, the Itinerario and the Rise of Dutch Overseas Expansion (1583-1611) -- Conclusion: Five Connected Histories of Knowledge? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mach's principle Fraunhofer diffraction Nuclear fission Newton's laws of motion Doppler effect Nuclear fusion Kepler's laws of planetary motion Ohm's Law Feynman diagram Newton's laws of gravitation Fleming's right-hand rule The God particle Conservation of energy Maxwell's equations String theory Simple harmonic motion Planck's law Special relativity Hooke's law Photoelectric effect General relativity Ideal gas law Schrodinger's wave equation Black holes Second law of thermodynamics Heisenberg's uncertainty principle Olber's paradox Absolute zero Copenhagen interpretation Hubble's law Brownian motion Schrodinger's cat The Big Bang Chaos Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox Inflation Bernouilli equation Pauli exclusion principle Dark matter Newton's theory of colour Superconductivity Dark energy Huygen's principle Rutherford's model of the atom Fermi Paradox Snell's law Antimatter Anthropic principle Bragg's law The standard model of particle physics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: Concerto (violin, Viola Da Gamba & B.c.) 10 Constantijn Huygens (den Haag, 1596 - 1687) From: Pathodia Sacra Et Profana, Paris, 1647 : Usquequo, Domine (iii) (sopra.... 11 Constantijn Huygens (den Haag, 1596 - 1687) From: Pathodia Sacra Et Profana, Paris, 1647 : Quare Tristes Es (ix) (alto &.... 12 Constantijn Huygens (den Haag, 1596 - 1687) From: Pathodia Sacra Et Profana, Paris, 1647 : De Profundis (xvii) (bass & B.c.) 13 Constantijn Huygens (den Haag, 1596 - 1687) From: Pathodia Sacra Et Profana, Paris, 1647 : Air (xxxv) (tenor & B.c.) 14 Jan Baptist Verrijt (oirschot, Ca. 1600 - Rotterdam, 1630) From: Flammae Divinae, Benis, Ternisque Vocibus Concinendae, .... 15 Anthoni Van Noordt (amsterdam, 1619 - 1675) From: Tabulatuur Boeck Van Psalmen En Fantasyen (amsterdam, 1660) : Psalm 2 .... 16 Sybrandt Van Noordt (amsterdam, 1659 - 1705) Sonate Per Il Cembalo Appropriate Al Flauto & Violino...opera Prima Amsterd.... 17 Sybrandt Van Noordt (amsterdam, 1659 - 1705) Sonate Per Il Cembalo Appropriate Al Flauto & Violino...opera Prima Amsterd.... 18 Carel Hacquart (brugge, Ca. 1640 - 1702) From: Harmonia Parnassia Sonatarum (utrecht, 1686) Sonata Viii A Quatro For 2 V.... 19 Benedictus Buns (geldern, Ca. 1640 - Boxmeer, 1716) From: Orpheus Elianus A Cormelo In Orbem Editus (amsterdam, 1698) Tr.... 20 Benedictus Buns (geldern, Ca. 1640 - Boxmeer, 1716) From: Orpheus Elianus A Cormelo In Orbem Editus (amsterdam, 1698) Tr.... 21 Benedictus Buns (geldern, Ca. 1640 - Boxmeer, 1716) From: Orpheus Elianus A Cormelo In Orbem Editus (amsterdam, 1698) Tr.... 22 Benedictus Buns (geldern, Ca. 1640 - Boxmeer, 1716) From: Orpheus Elianus A Cormelo In Orbem Editus (amsterdam, 1698) Tr...…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Allegory tied into a knot: history's continuity dramatically disrupted -- Perverse powers, or how to make fun of the theater of torture -- Catholic Rome and the figure of Job: subjection to the only possible world -- The cruel death of worlds and political incompatibility -- the brothers De Witt -- Foundations of law: the master/father of a political house -- The lynching of the De Witts: condensation and spectacle -- The ship of state and the cruel political choice between incompatible worlds -- Combat, the dramatic logic of cruelty, and the potential of difference -- A Happy Split of Worlds or the Comedic Sublime -- Frans Hals -- Happiness, the comedic, and the sublime -- From Steen to Vondel: comical and tragic counterpoints to the comedic -- The sublime intensity of the moment -- Freedom: necessity and contingency -- The seas or the world as scene -- Focquenbroch and Grotius -- Pre-colonial mise-en-abyme: Focquenbroch and a non-republican baroque -- Moment of exchange and the non-existent 'proper' -- Juridical staging: commerce and the seas -- The precariousness of mise-en-scene -- Amsterdam: city and sea as world scene -- Not a frame but a lens: the touch of knowledge -- Rumphius, Vossius, Spinoza -- Spectacle or theater: Rumphius as knowledge-trader -- Nature internalized: res cogitans reconsidered -- Sensing the world differently: the telescope -- Reading through a lens: intensity and texture before scripture -- Public theater, collective drama and the new -- Van den Enden and Huygens -- Theatrum mundi, public acting and the plane of collective imagination -- Speaking for those who understand: a school drama in a theater -- Dramatization: Theatrum mundi versus mundus dramaticus -- Fluid borders between theatricality and dramatization: Huygens' 'Sunday' -- Interrupting time for the sake of division: history and the tableau vivant -- Rembrandt (Abraham and Isaac), Quast, Vondel, and Vos -- Abraham and Isaac: the opening of history through the what-if -- The virtual: narrative versus interruption -- A Fool Waiting for the Political Moment: Tableau Vivant Between Retrospection and Anticipation -- The political potential in the tableau and the nature of freedom -- Moment of closure: spectacle and a revolting tableau…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Measurement and method: some remarks on Newton, Huygens and Euler on natural philosophy William Harper; 8. …”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Antiquity; Triangulation (600 BCE) -- Pythagorean monochord (500 BCE) -- Phases of the moon (448 BCE) -- Empedocles discovers air (450 BCE) -- Aristotle's universe (350 BCE) -- Relative distance of sun and moon (280 BCE) -- Archimedes' balance (250 BCE) -- Archimedes' principle (250 BCE) -- The size of the earth (225 BCE) -- Middle Ages; Philoponus on free fall (550 CE) -- The optics of vision (1020 CE) -- Oresme's triangle -- Leonardo and earthshine -- Early Modern Period; The Copernican cosmos -- The impossibility of perpetual motion -- Snell's law -- The mountains on the moon -- The moons of Jupiter -- Kepler's laws of planetary motion -- Galileo on free fall -- Galileo on projectile motion -- Scaling and similitude -- The weight of air -- Boyle's law -- Newton's theory of color -- Free-body diagrams -- Newton's cradle -- Newtonian trajectories -- Huygens' principle -- Bernoulli's principle -- Electrostatics -- Nineteenth Century; Young's double slit -- Oersted's demonstration -- Carnot's simplest heat engine -- Joules's apparatus -- Faraday's lines of force -- Maxwell's electromagnetic waves -- Twentieth Century and Beyond; Photoelectric effect -- Brownian motion -- Rutherford's gold foil experiment -- Bohr's hydrogen atom -- X-rays and crystals -- General relativity -- Compton scattering -- Matter waves -- The expanding universe (1927-29) -- The neutrino and conservation of energy -- Discovering the neutron -- Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion -- Global greenhouse effect -- Higgs boson (2012)…”