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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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