| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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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Wetenschap algemeen |
| Notes |
"Museum Boerhaave, Leiden"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
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| SUBJECT |
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 fast |
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Natural history -- Netherlands
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Physics -- Philosophy.
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Natural history -- Philosophy
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Natural theology.
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Philosophy, Dutch.
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History of science.
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Mathematics and science.
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Science: general issues.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Natural history
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Natural history -- Philosophy
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Natural theology
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Philosophy, Dutch
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Physics -- Philosophy
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Netherlands
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jorink, Eric, editor, author.
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Maas, Ad, 1970- editor, author.
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| LC no. |
2013445090 |
| ISBN |
9789400600553 |
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9400600550 |
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9789400601239 |
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9400601239 |
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