Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic /
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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| Język: | angielski |
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Amsterdam :
Leiden University Press,
[2012]
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Spis treści:
- 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.