Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic / edited by Eric Jorink and Ad Maas.
Material type: TextSeries: 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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- 9789400600553
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
- Naturhistoria
- Physics -- Philosophy
- Philosophy, Dutch
- Natural theology
- Natural history -- Philosophy
- Natural history
- Theologie naturelle
- Sciences naturelles -- Philosophie
- Physique -- Philosophie
- Sciences naturelles -- Pays-Bas
- Philosophy, Dutch
- Natural theology
- Natural history -- Philosophy
- Physics -- Philosophy
- Natural history -- Netherlands
- Nederländerna
- Netherlands
"Museum Boerhaave, Leiden"--Cover.
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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