Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic / edited by Eric Jorink and Ad Maas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Amsterdam : Leiden University Press, [2012]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017Copyright date: ©[2012]Description: 1 online resource (256 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • online resource
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  • 9789400600553
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Contents:
The Miracle of Our Time' How Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Netherlands / Huib Zuidervaart -- Servant of Two Masters Fatio de Duillier between Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton / Rob Iliffe -- How Newtonian Was Herman Boerhaave? / Rina Knoeff -- The Man Who Erased Himself / Willem Jacob -- 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 Ǹewtonianism' / 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 Gravesande to Van Swinden / Henri Krop.
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.
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The Miracle of Our Time' How Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Netherlands / Huib Zuidervaart -- Servant of Two Masters Fatio de Duillier between Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton / Rob Iliffe -- How Newtonian Was Herman Boerhaave? / Rina Knoeff -- The Man Who Erased Himself / Willem Jacob -- 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 Ǹewtonianism' / 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 Gravesande to Van Swinden / Henri Krop.

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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.

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