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Rethinking Stevin, Stevin Rethinking Constructions of a Dutch Polymath.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davids, C. A.
Otros Autores: Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan, Stamhuis, Ida H., Vermij, Rienk H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Colección:Nuncius Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Simon Stevin, Polymaths and Polymathy in the Early Modern Period -- 1 Simon Stevin: a Brief Life -- 2 Polymaths and Polymathy: a Conceptual Survey -- 3 Polymaths and Polymathy in Comparative Perspective -- 4 Stevin Thinking: Searching for Keys in the Consten -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1 The Engineer and the Philosopher: Reflections on the Culture and Economy of Mechanics in Court Society 
505 8 |a 1 The Codification of an Aristocratic Discipline -- 2 Benedetti's Physico-Mathematics: a Courtly Path to Science -- 3 The Socio-Economic and Political Terrain of Court Science: the Case of Benedetti -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgment -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Vitruvian Universalism: On the Order of Mechanical Knowledge in the Works of Joseph Furttenbach the Elder (1591-1667) -- 1 Peregrinatio Mechanica and Militaris -- 2 Self-Fashioning: the Locality and Universality of Knowledge -- 3 Armory and the Cabinet of Curiosity -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography 
505 8 |a Chapter 3 The Swedish Archimedes: The Formation of the Polymath Christopher Polhem -- 1 Introduction: Polhem's Headache -- 2 The Swedish Archimedes -- 3 Mechanical Education -- 4 Mechanical Perception -- 5 Mechanical Communication -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Stevin's Physical Geography The World as a Chemical Furnace -- 1 General Principles -- 2 The Constitution of the Earth -- 3 Experience and Chemistry -- 4 Mechanical Chemistry -- 5 Stevin and the Mechanization of Nature -- Bibliography 
505 8 |a Chapter 5 The Art of Demonstration in the Work of Simon Stevin: Linguistic and Mathematical Innovation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Cultural and Social Context -- 3 Structure and Content -- 3.1 Method and Organization -- 4 Common Sense, Common Language and Mathematics -- 4.1 The Certainty of Mathematics -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Causality and the Reduction to Art of Simon Stevin's Mechanics -- 1 Bringing Mechanics to the Form of Art -- 2 Delineating a Field -- 3 Demonstrating the Law of the Lever and the Law of the Inclined Plane16 
505 8 |a 4 Disclosing the Causes of the Properties of the Balance -- 5 Formal Causality and the Arts -- 6 Coordinating Theory and Practice, Cause and Effect -- 7 Conclusion: 'This Long-Hidden Matter' -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 The Wise Origins of the Consten: Stevin and Sixteenth-Century Debates on Arts, Mathematics and Language -- 1 The 'Wijsentijt' in Stevin's Oeuvre -- 2 Stevin's Program for the Consten -- 3 A Grammar of the Arts -- 4 Blending Theory and Praxis -- 5 Stevin and Ramus -- 6 Stevin's Persona -- Bibliography 
500 |a Chapter 8 Simon Stevin's Age of the Sages: In Search of an Alternative Renaissance: Exploring Scientific Methods Based on Pre-Classical Authorities, Empirical Data and Pure Languages. 
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