Newton and the Netherlands
How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic
Published on 23. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-90-8728-137-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'A new light on several major figures involved in the reception of Newton's work' (prof. Bert Theunissen, Institute for the History and Foundations of Science/ Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University[-]'This book provides an important contribution to the study of the European Enlightenment with new insights in the circulation of knowledge.' (prof. Frans van Lunteren, Leiden University)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Adult education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8728-137-3 (9789087281373)
DOI
10.5117/9789087281373
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Persons
Eric Jorink is researcher at the Huygens Institute for Netherlands History (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences). He is the author of Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715|Ad Maas is curator at the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, the Netherlands. Eric Jorink is researcher at the Huygens Institute for Netherlands History (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences). He is the author of Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 (Leiden 2010).
Content
Contents - 6[-]Introduction - 8[-]'The Miracle of Our Time' How Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Netherlands - 14[-]Servant of Two Masters Fatio de Duillier between Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton - 68[-]How Newtonian Was Herman Boerhaave? - 94[-]The Man Who Erased Himself Willem Jacob 's Gravesande and the Enlightenment - 114[-]'The Wisest Man to Whom this Earth Has as Yet Given Birth' Petrus van Musschenbroek and the limits of Newtonian natural philosophy - 140[-]Low Country Opticks optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch 'Newtonianism' - 160[-]Defining the Supernatural Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature - 186[-]Anti-Newtonianism and Radical Enlightenment - 208[-]Newtonianism at the Dutch Universitie sduring the Enlightenment teaching of 'philosophy' from 's Gravesande to Van Swinden - 228[-]Authors - 251[-]Index - 253