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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Leiden University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 HermanBoerhaave? / 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 RadicalEnlightenment / Jordy Geerlings
- Newtonianism at the Dutch Universities during the Enlightenment: The teaching of 'philosophy' from 's Gravesande to Van Swinden / Henri Krop.