David Gorlaeus 1591 1612

Author : Christoph Lüthy
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789089644381

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David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) by Christoph Lüthy Pdf

When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology. The aim of this book is to shed light on Gorlaeus’ family circumstances, his education at Franeker and Leiden, and on the virulent Arminian crisis which provided the context within which his work was written. It also attempts to define Gorlaeus’ place in the history of Dutch philosophy and to assess the influence that it exercised in the evolution of philosophy and science, and notably in early Cartesian circles. Christoph Lüthy is professor of the history of philosophy and science at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Author : Christoph Luthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1090059208

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David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) by Christoph Luthy Pdf

Author : Christoph Herbert Lüthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Atomism
ISBN : OCLC:1014403932

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David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) by Christoph Herbert Lüthy Pdf

When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology. The aim of this book is to shed light on Gorlaeus' family circumstances, his education at Franeker and Leiden, and on the virulent Arminian crisis which provided the context within which his work was written. It also attempts to define Gorlaeus' place in the history of Dutch philosophy and to assess the influence that it exercised in the evolution of philosophy and science, and notably in early Cartesian circles. Christoph Lüthy is professor of the history of philosophy and science at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Author : David S. Sytsma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190274887

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Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers by David S. Sytsma Pdf

Richard Baxter, one of the most famous Puritans of the seventeenth century, is generally known as a writer of practical and devotional literature. But he also excelled in knowledge of medieval and early modern scholastic theology, and was conversant with a wide variety of seventeenth-century philosophies. Baxter was among the early English polemicists who wrote against the mechanical philosophy of René Descartes and Pierre Gassendi in the years immediately following the establishment of the Royal Society. At the same time, he was friends with Robert Boyle and Matthew Hale, corresponded with Joseph Glanvill, and engaged in philosophical controversy with Henry More. In this book, David Sytsma presents a chronological and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late-seventeenth-century England. Drawing on largely unexamined works, including Baxter's Methodus Theologiae Christianae (1681) and manuscript treatises and correspondence, Sytsma discusses Baxter's response to mechanical philosophers on the nature of substance, laws of motion, the soul, and ethics. Analysis of these topics is framed by a consideration of the growth of Christian Epicureanism in England, Baxter's overall approach to reason and philosophy, and his attempt to understand creation as an analogical reflection of God's power, wisdom, and goodness, or vestigia Trinitatis. Baxter's views on reason, analogical knowledge of God, and vestigia Trinitatis draw on medieval precedents and directly inform a largely hostile, though partially accommodating, response to mechanical philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004528925

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Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance by Anonim Pdf

The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied as are the entities that were proposed. This volume covers the period from the earliest commentaries on Lucretius’ De rerum natura to the sources of Newton’s alchemical texts. Contributors examine key developments in Renaissance physiology, meteorology, metaphysics, theology, chymistry and historiography, all of which came to assign a greater explanatory weight to minute entities. These contributions show that there was no simple ‘revival of atomism’, but that the Renaissance confronts us with a diverse and conceptually messy process. Contributors are: Stephen Clucas, Christoph Lüthy, Craig Martin, Elisabeth Moreau, William R. Newman, Elena Nicoli, Sandra Plastina, Kuni Sakamoto, Jole Shackelford, and Leen Spruit.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004453968

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Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories by Anonim Pdf

This volume deals with corpuscular matter theory that was to emerge as the dominant model in the seventeenth century. By retracing atomist and corpuscularian ideas to a variety of mutually independent medieval and Renaissance sources in natural philosophy, medicine, alchemy, mathematics, and theology, this volume shows the debt of early modern matter theory to previous traditions and thereby explains its bewildering heterogeneity. The book assembles nineteen carefully selected contributions by some of the most notable historians of medieval and early modern philosophy and science. All chapters present new research results and will therefore be of interest to historians of philosophy, science, and medicine between 1150 and 1750.

Author : Klaas van Berkel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421409610

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Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion by Klaas van Berkel Pdf

Explore the work of a founding father of the mechanical philosophy of nature, Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637). The contribution of the Dutch craftsman and scholar Isaac Beeckman to early modern scientific thought has never been properly acknowledged. Surprisingly free from the constraints of traditional natural philosophy, he developed a view of the world in which everything, from the motion of the heavens to musical harmonies, is explained by reducing it to matter in motion. His ideas deeply influenced Descartes and Gassendi. Klaas van Berkel has succeeded in unearthing and explicating Beeckman's scientific notebooks, allowing us to follow how he developed his new philosophy, almost day by day. Beeckman was almost forgotten until the discovery of his notebooks in the early twentieth century. Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion is the first full-length study of the ideas and motives of this remarkable figure. Van Berkel's important study first relates Beeckman's life, placing him in the religious, intellectual, educational, and social context of the Dutch Republic in its golden age. Van Berkel then analyzes the notebooks themselves and the nature and development of Beeckman's "mechanical philosophy." He demonstrates how Beeckman's artisanal background and religious convictions shaped his natural philosophy, even as the decisive influence stems from the educational philosophy of the sixteenth-century French philosopher Peter Ramus. Historians of science and the philosophy of science will find the substance of Beeckman's thought and the unraveling of its growth and development highly interesting. Van Berkel's account provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of the origins of the mechanical philosophy of nature, the philosophy that culminated in the work of Isaac Newton.

Author : Delphine Antoine-Mahut,Sophie Roux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429787553

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Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception by Delphine Antoine-Mahut,Sophie Roux Pdf

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes’ philosophy. According to the standard account, Descartes modified the objects of metaphysics and physics and inverted the order in which these two disciplines were traditionally studied. This book challenges the standard account in which Descartes prioritizes metaphysics over physics. It does so by taking into consideration the historical reception of Descartes and the ways in which Descartes himself reacted to these receptions in his own lifetime. The book stresses the diversity of these receptions by taking into account not only Cartesianisms but also anti-Cartesianisms, and by showing how they retroactively highlighted different aspects of Descartes’ works and theoretical choices. The historical aspect of the volume is unique in that it not only analyzes different constructions of Descartes that emerged in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, but also reflects on how his work was first read by philosophers across Europe. Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a fresh and up-to-date contribution to this important debate in early modern philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004453319

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The Dynamics of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century by Anonim Pdf

This book explores the dynamics of the commentary and textbook traditions in Aristotelian natural philosophy under the headings of doctrine, method, and scientific and social status. It enquires what the evolution of the Aristotelian commentary tradition can tell us about the character of natural philosophy as a pedagogical tool, as a scientific enterprise, and as a background to modern scientific thought. In a unique attempt to cut old-fashioned historiographic divisions, it brings together scholars of ancient, medieval, Renaissance and seventeenth-century philosophy. The book covers a remarkably broad range of topics: it starts with the first Greek commentators and ends with Leibniz.

Author : Dmitri Levitin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108837002

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The Kingdom of Darkness by Dmitri Levitin Pdf

This transformative account of early modern intellectual life culminates with new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton.

Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 3618 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319141695

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Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy by Marco Sgarbi Pdf

Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Author : David Marshall Miller,Dana Jalobeanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108420303

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The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution by David Marshall Miller,Dana Jalobeanu Pdf

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

Author : Andreas J. Beck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004504394

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Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, Freedom, and Contingency by Andreas J. Beck Pdf

Focusing on Gisbertus Voetius’s views on God, freedom, and contingency, Andreas J. Beck offers the first monograph in English that is entirely devoted to the theology of this leading figure of early modern Reformed scholasticism.

Author : Evan R. Ragland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004515727

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Making Physicians by Evan R. Ragland Pdf

Making Physicians displays the pedagogical practices that formed students into physicians, debunking longstanding myths by showing how much anatomy, sense experience, and materials mattered to Galenic medicine. Humanist book learning combined with hands-on training with medicines and exploring bodies, both living and dead.

Author : SAMUEL. FORNECKER
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Arminianism
ISBN : 9780197637135

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Bisschop's Bench by SAMUEL. FORNECKER Pdf

The relationship between English conformity and the Arminian tradition has long defied neat explanation. In Bisschop's Bench, Samuel D. Fornecker charts the incompatible theological agendas into which post-Restoration Arminian conformity proliferated and challenges the thesis that a monolithic Arminianism marched steadily from the post-Restoration period into the early Hanoverian. Fornecker examines the theological life of the English Church by paying particular attention to the Arminian conformists who accentuated Reformed divinity in an unprecedented display of disambiguation from the Dutch Arminian tradition and those who exercised authority from the Bishops' bench. By demonstrating the scope of intra-Arminian divergence and the negatively defined consensus that united traditionalist clergy otherwise at odds over grace and predestination, Bisschop's Bench provides an illuminating perspective on the Arminian tradition in the political, confessional, and educative contexts of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England.