Physics at Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Leiden: Philosophy and the New Science in the University Philosophy and the New Science in the University
2 result of the attitudes characteristic of the small group of permanent residents at the schools, the academic scholars. This conservatism, however, was not everywhere equally efficacious. In the sixteenth century, the universities of northern Italy, Padua above all, had nurtured an intellectual fe...
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Springer Netherlands
1973, 1973
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1973 |
| Series: | Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor
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Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction: A New University and the Challenge of the New Science
- II. Franco Burgersdijck: Late Scholasticism at Leiden
- III. Tumult over Cartesianism
- IV. Joannes de Raey: The Introduction of Cartesian Physics at Leiden
- V. Passing Crises, enduring Disagreement
- VI. The Practice of Philosophy
- VII. ’s Gravesande and Musschenbroek: Newtonianism at Leiden
- VIII. Conclusion: Science, Philosophy and Pedagogy
- Selected Bibliography