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Newton and the Netherlands: How Isaac Newton Was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic(LUP Academic)

Newton and the Netherlands: How Isaac Newton Was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic(LUP Academic)


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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. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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).

Review :
'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)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789400601239
  • Publisher: Leiden University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Leiden University Press
  • Series Title: LUP Academic
  • ISBN-10: 9400601239
  • Publisher Date: 23 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: How Isaac Newton Was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic


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