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The Ages of Two faced Janus
Author | : Tabitta Van Nouhuys |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004112049 |
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This volume deals with the tracts - Latin and vernacular - published in the Netherlands on the comets of 1577 and 1618. Central to the book is the question of how these cometary appearances influenced the Aristotelian world view. This is the first lengthy examination of the decline of Aristotelian cosmology in the Netherlands. Its demonstration of the connection between cosmological and political views renders the book useful to historians of general Dutch history, as well as historians of science.
Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology
Author | : Patrick Bonner |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789400700376 |
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Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a variety of intellectual settings, challenging our view of modern science as a straightforward successor to Aristotelian natural philosophy. It shows how astronomers dealt with celestial novelties by deploying old ideas in new ways and identifying more subtle notions of cosmic rationality. Beginning with the celestial spheres of Peurbach and ending with the evolutionary implications of the new star Mira Ceti, it surveys a pivotal phase in our understanding of the universe as a place of constant change that confirmed deeper patterns of cosmic order and stability.
Humanism in an Age of Science
Author | : Dirk van Miert |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2009-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789047430292 |
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Drawing on letters, orations and disputations, this book argues that during the seventeenth century, the Amsterdam Athenaeum, despite the revolutionary debates of the time, and despite the intellectual liberalism characteristic of Amsterdam, remained traditional in its teaching.
Temporality Genre and Experience in the Age of Shakespeare
Author | : Lauren Shohet |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2018-02-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781350017313 |
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Focusing on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, these original essays by leading scholars explore how theatrical, aesthetic, and linguistic forms engage early modern experiences of temporality. Encompassing comedy, tragedy, history, and romance, some contributions consider how different models of pastness, presentness, sequentiality, memory, and historical meaning underwrite particular representational practices. Others, conversely, investigate how aesthetic forms afforded diverse ways for early-modern people to understand or experience time - and how this can impact us today.
Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Philip Beeley,Yelda Nasifoglu,Benjamin Wardhaugh |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000207477 |
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Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for exploring the nature of mathematical reading and the ways in which mathematics was disseminated and assimilated across different social milieus in the early centuries of print culture. Other evidence is important, too, as the case studies collected in the volume document. Scholarly correspondence can help us understand the motives and difficulties in producing new printed texts, library catalogues can illuminate collection practices, while manuscripts can teach us more about textual traditions. By defining and illuminating the distinctive world of early modern mathematical reading, the volume seeks to close the gap between the history of mathematics as a history of texts and history of mathematics as part of the broader history of human culture.
The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic 1650 1750
Author | : Wiep van Bunge |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2003-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004247659 |
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This book contains twelve major essays written by prominent historians from the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States on the early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, and more in particular on the main schools of thought that made up its philosophical profile.
The Limits of Influence
Author | : Steven Broecke, vanden |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2021-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004453616 |
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This is a case study of astrology's changing status as an academic discipline in the sixteenth century. It provides fascinating new insights in the practice of Renaissance astrology, its social position, and its profound impact on the changes in early modern European science.
The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies
Author | : Michael John MacDonald |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199731596 |
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Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment up to the present day.