
Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the nl Republic.
Title:
Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the nl Republic.
Author:
Jorink, E.
ISBN:
9789400600553
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents:
9789087281373_TEXT_HR_DRUK -- Contents -- 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 Herman Boerhaave? -- 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 optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch 'Newtonianism' -- Defining the Supernatural Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature -- Anti-Newtonianism and Radical Enlightenment -- Newtonianism at the Dutch Universitie sduring the Enlightenment teaching of 'philosophy' from 's Gravesande to Van Swinden -- Authors -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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