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Newton and the Netherlands : how Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Dutch republic / edited by Eric Jorink and Ad Maas. - 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

"Museum Boerhaave, Leiden"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / 'The Miracle of Our Time': How Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Netherlands / Servant of Two Masters: Fatio de Duillier between Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton / How Newtonian Was HermanBoerhaave? / The Man Who Erased Himself: Willem Jacob 's Gravesande and the Enlightenment / 'The Wisest Man to Whom this Earth Has as Yet Given Birth': Petrus van Musschenbroek and the limits of Newtonian natural philosophy / Low Country Opticks: The optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch 'Newtonianism' / Defining the Supernatural: The Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature / Anti-Newtonianism and RadicalEnlightenment / Newtonianism at the Dutch Universities during the Enlightenment: The teaching of 'philosophy' from 's Gravesande to Van Swinden / Eric Jorink and Ad Maas -- Eric Jorink and Huib Zuidervaart -- Rob Iliffe -- Rina Knoe -- Ad Maas -- Kees de Pater -- Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis -- Rienk Vermij -- Jordy Geerlings -- Henri Krop.

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.


English.

ISBN: 9789400600553 (pdf) 9400600550 (pdf) 9789400601239 (ePub) 9400601239 (ePub)

Source: Ne 13-13

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016276475 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Natural history--Netherlands.
Physics--Philosophy.
Natural history--Philosophy.
Natural theology.
Philosophy, Dutch.
Sciences naturelles--Pays-Bas.
Physique--Philosophie.
Sciences naturelles--Philosophie.
Théologie naturelle.
History of science.
Mathematics and science.
Science: general issues.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Science & Technology.
SCIENCE--History.
Natural history.
Natural history--Philosophy.
Natural theology.
Philosophy, Dutch.
Physics--Philosophy.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Netherlands.

Subjects--Index Terms: Wetenschap algemeen

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Book (monograph)
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: QC16.N7 / N49 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 509