Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century

This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. It investigates the broad context of that discussion, which was at once scientific, cultural, po...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Omodeo, Pietro Daniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02247nmm a2200277 u 4500
001 EB002065288
003 EBX01000000000000001205378
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 220901 ||| eng
020 |a 9783031019647 
100 1 |a Omodeo, Pietro Daniel 
245 0 0 |a Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century  |c by Pietro Daniel Omodeo 
250 |a 1st ed. 2022 
260 |a Cham  |b Springer International Publishing  |c 2022, 2022 
300 |a XXX, 214 p. 19 illus. in color  |b online resource 
505 0 |a Chapter 1. Cartesianismus-Streit at Frankfurt an der Oder: Johannes Placentinus and His Opponents, 1653-1656 -- Chapter 2. Nature and Scripture: Confessional Networks and Cross-Confessional Exegetic Problems -- Chapter 3. A Cartesian-Scholastic Controversy over the Origin of Life Opposing Frankfurt and Wittenberg, 1659-1660 -- Chapter 4. The Mechanization of Astrology, 1661-1665 -- Chapter 5. Placentinus’s Cometary Correspondence with Hevelius and Lubieniecki -- Chapter 6. Medical and Demonological Approaches to Descartes’s Psychophysical Dualism: Andreae and Brecht -- Chapter 7. Cartesian Bodies: Experiments on Embalmment -- Chapter 8. The Cultural Politics of Cartesianism 
653 |a Design 
653 |a Philosophy 
653 |a Arts 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b Springer  |a Springer eBooks 2005- 
490 0 |a Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01964-7?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 100 
520 |a This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. It investigates the broad context of that discussion, which was at once scientific, cultural, political and socio-institutional. Chapter by chapter, the book sheds light on the most relevant aspects of the environment of the time. It is aimed at historians of science and philosophy, as well as scholars investigating German-speaking Europe of the 17th century