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Newton and the Netherlands How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic / edited by Eric Jorink and Ad Maas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jorink, E., Editor.
- Series:
- Open Access e-Books
- Knowledge Unlatched
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
- Philosophy, Dutch.
- Natural theology.
- Natural history--Philosophy.
- Natural history.
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Natural history--Netherlands.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden Leiden University Press 2012
- Amsterdam : Leiden University Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Museum Boerhaave, Leiden"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789400600553
- 9400600550
- OCLC:
- 834550647
- Publisher Number:
- 10.5117/9789087281373
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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