Universities And Science In The Early Modern Period

Author : Mordechai Feingold,Victor Navarro-Brotons
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1402039743

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Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period by Mordechai Feingold,Victor Navarro-Brotons Pdf

This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on “Univ- sities and Science in the Early Modern Period” held in 1999 in Valencia, Spain. The conference was part of the “Five Centuries of the Life of the University of Valencia” (Cinc Segles) celebrations, and from the outset we had the generous support of the “Patronato” (Foundation) overseeing the events. In recent decades, as a result of a renewed attention to the institutional, political, social, and cultural context of scienti?c activity, we have witnessed a reappraisal of the role of the universities in the construction and development of early modern science. In essence, the following conclusions have been reached: (1) the attitudes regarding scienti?c progress or novelty differed from country to country and follow differenttrajectoriesinthecourseoftheearlymodernperiod;(2)institutionsofhigher learning were the main centers of education for most scientists; (3) although the universities were sometimes slow to assimilate new scienti?c knowledge, when they didsoithelpednotonlytoremovethesuspicionthatthenewsciencewasintellectually subversivebutalsotomakesciencearespectableandevenprestigiousactivity;(4)the universities gave the scienti?c movement considerable material support in the form of research facilities such as anatomical theaters, botanical gardens, and expensive instruments; (5) the universities provided professional employment and a means of support to many scientists; and (6) although the relations among the universities and the academies or scienti?c societies were sometimes antagonistic, the two types of institutionsoftenworkedtogetherinharmony,performingcomplementaryratherthan competing functions; moreover, individuals moved from one institution to another, as did knowledge, methods, and scienti?c practices.

Author : Anja-Silvia Goeing,Glyn Parry,Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004444058

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Early Modern Universities by Anja-Silvia Goeing,Glyn Parry,Mordechai Feingold Pdf

Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Education contains twenty essays by experts on early modern academic networks. Using a variety of approaches to universities, schools, and academies throughout Europe and in Central America, the book suggests pathways for future research.

Author : V. Feola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 8835110181

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Early Modern Universities and the Sciences by V. Feola Pdf

Author : Mark A. Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425285

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Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe by Mark A. Waddell Pdf

An accessible new exploration of the vibrant world of early modern Europe through a focus on magic, science, and religion.

Author : Hubertus Fischer,Volker R. Remmert,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319263427

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Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period by Hubertus Fischer,Volker R. Remmert,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn Pdf

This volume focuses on the outstanding contributions made by botany and the mathematical sciences to the genesis and development of early modern garden art and garden culture. The many facets of the mathematical sciences and botany point to the increasingly “scientific” approach that was being adopted in and applied to garden art and garden culture in the early modern period. This development was deeply embedded in the philosophical, religious, political, cultural and social contexts, running parallel to the beginning of processes of scientization so characteristic for modern European history. This volume strikingly shows how these various developments are intertwined in gardens for various purposes.

Author : Anja-Silvia Goeing,Glyn Parry,Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : Scientific and Learned Culture
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9004442413

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Early Modern Universities by Anja-Silvia Goeing,Glyn Parry,Mordechai Feingold Pdf

"This book contains twenty essays by expert scholars of higher learning in the early modern period. Together they discuss topics that historians of universities have largely ignored: notably the extensive collaboration, and occasional conflicts, between university scholars, instructors, and administrators on the one hand, and students at academies, independent and dependent colleges, gymnasia, and Latin schools on the other. The contributions also cover a wide geographical range, covering universities, schools, academies, and the history of the book, in many European states, and Latin America"--

Author : Mary Baine Campbell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501705052

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Wonder and Science by Mary Baine Campbell Pdf

During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences—particularly geography, astronomy, and anthropology—from the writing of fiction. Campbell's learned and brilliantly perceptive new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographies, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions. Among the authors she discusses are André Thevet, Thomas Hariot, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn. Campbell's emphasis is on developments in England and France, but she considers works in languages other than English or French which were well known in the polyglot book culture of the time. With over thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography.

Author : Hilde de Ridder-Symoens,Walter Rüegg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 052154114X

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A History of the University in Europe by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens,Walter Rüegg Pdf

A History of the University in Europe covers the development of the university in Europe (East and West) from its origins to the present day. No other up-to-date, comprehensive history of this type exists: its originality lies in focusing on a number of major themes viewed from a European perspective, and in its interdisciplinary, collaborative and transnational character. Volume 1, covering the Middle Ages, places the medieval European universities in their social and political context. After explaining the number and types of universities from their origins in the twelfth century to around 1500, it examines the inner workings as an institution and paints a general picture of medieval student life. Volume 2 attempts to situate the universities in their social and political context throughout the three centuries spanning the period 1500 to 1800. Volume 3 shows that by focusing on the freedom of scientific research, teaching and study, the medieval university structure was modernized and enabled discoveries to become a professional, bureaucratically-regulated activity of the university. This opened the way for the victorious march of the natural sciences, and led to student movements--resulting in the university being ultimately cast in the role of a citadel of political struggle in a world-wide fight for freedom. - Publisher.

Author : David A. Lines
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674290044

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The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy by David A. Lines Pdf

A pathbreaking history of early modern education argues that Europe’s oldest university, often seen as a bastion of traditionalism, was in fact a vibrant site of intellectual innovation and cultural exchange. The University of Bologna was among the premier universities in medieval Europe and an international magnet for students of law. However, a long-standing historiographical tradition holds that Bologna—and Italian university education more broadly—foundered in the early modern period. On this view, Bologna’s curriculum ossified and its prestige crumbled, due at least in part to political and religious pressure from Rome. Meanwhile, new ways of thinking flourished instead in humanist academies, scientific societies, and northern European universities. David Lines offers a powerful counternarrative. While Bologna did decline as a center for the study of law, he argues, the arts and medicine at the university rose to new heights from 1400 to 1750. Archival records show that the curriculum underwent constant revision to incorporate contemporary research and theories, developed by the likes of René Descartes and Isaac Newton. From the humanities to philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine, teaching became more systematic and less tied to canonical texts and authors. Theology, meanwhile, achieved increasing prominence across the university. Although this religious turn reflected the priorities and values of the Catholic Reformation, it did not halt the creation of new scientific chairs or the discussion of new theories and discoveries. To the contrary, science and theology formed a new alliance at Bologna. The University of Bologna remained a lively hub of cultural exchange in the early modern period, animated by connections not only to local colleges, academies, and libraries, but also to scholars, institutions, and ideas throughout Europe.

Author : David C. Lindberg,Katharine Park,Roy Porter,Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521572446

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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science by David C. Lindberg,Katharine Park,Roy Porter,Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500-1700.

Author : Alexander Marr,Raphaele Garrod,Jose Ramon Marcaida,Richard J. Oosterhoff
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822986300

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Logodaedalus by Alexander Marr,Raphaele Garrod,Jose Ramon Marcaida,Richard J. Oosterhoff Pdf

Before Romantic genius, there was ingenuity. Early modern ingenuity defined every person—not just exceptional individuals—as having their own attributes and talents, stemming from an “inborn nature” that included many qualities, not just intelligence. Through ingenuity and its family of related terms, early moderns sought to understand and appreciate differences between peoples, places, and things in an attempt to classify their ingenuities and assign professions that were best suited to one’s abilities. Logodaedalus, a prehistory of genius, explores the various ways this language of ingenuity was defined, used, and manipulated between 1470 and 1750. By analyzing printed dictionaries and other lexical works across a range of languages—Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, English, German, and Dutch—the authors reveal the ways in which significant words produced meaning in history and found expression in natural philosophy, medicine, natural history, mathematics, mechanics, poetics, and artistic theory.

Author : Dana Jalobeanu,Charles T. Wolfe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2267 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319310695

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Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences by Dana Jalobeanu,Charles T. Wolfe Pdf

This Encyclopedia offers a fresh, integrated and creative perspective on the formation and foundations of philosophy and science in European modernity. Combining careful contextual reconstruction with arguments from traditional philosophy, the book examines methodological dimensions, breaks down traditional oppositions such as rationalism vs. empiricism, calls attention to gender issues, to ‘insiders and outsiders’, minor figures in philosophy, and underground movements, among many other topics. In addition, and in line with important recent transformations in the fields of history of science and early modern philosophy, the volume recognizes the specificity and significance of early modern science and discusses important developments including issues of historiography (such as historical epistemology), the interplay between the material culture and modes of knowledge, expert knowledge and craft knowledge. This book stands at the crossroads of different disciplines and combines their approaches – particularly the history of science, the history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy of science, and intellectual and cultural history. It brings together over 100 philosophers, historians of science, historians of mathematics, and medicine offering a comprehensive view of early modern philosophy and the sciences. It combines and discusses recent results from two very active fields: early modern philosophy and the history of (early modern) science. Editorial Board EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Dana Jalobeanu University of Bucharest, Romania Charles T. Wolfe Ghent University, Belgium ASSOCIATE EDITORS Delphine Bellis University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Zvi Biener University of Cincinnati, OH, USA Angus Gowland University College London, UK Ruth Hagengruber University of Paderborn, Germany Hiro Hirai Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Martin Lenz University of Groningen, The Netherlands Gideon Manning CalTech, Pasadena, CA, USA Silvia Manzo University of La Plata, Argentina Enrico Pasini University of Turin, Italy Cesare Pastorino TU Berlin, Germany Lucian Petrescu Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Justin E. H. Smith University de Paris Diderot, France Marius Stan Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA Koen Vermeir CNRS-SPHERE + Université de Paris, France Kirsten Walsh University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Author : Ann Blair,Nicholas Popper
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421440934

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New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship by Ann Blair,Nicholas Popper Pdf

"This edited collection assembles a set of essays investigating the past, present, and future historiography of scholars who write about the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe. Contributors examine how scholars in recent decades have broken down traditional boundaries imposed on this period by exploring shifting conceptions of periodization, geography, genre, and evidence"--

Author : Mordechai Feingold,Giulia Giannini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004416871

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The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe by Mordechai Feingold,Giulia Giannini Pdf

This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe, from Italy to England, and from Poland to Portugal.

Author : Peter Barker,Roger Ariew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041413340

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Revolution and Continuity by Peter Barker,Roger Ariew Pdf

Societies, circles, academies, and organizations : a historiographic essay on seventeenth-century science / David Lux -- Tradition versus novelty : universities and scientific societies in the early modern period / Mordechai Feingold -- Physick and natural history in seventeenth-century England / Harold Cook -- A new science of geology in the seventeenth-century? / Roger Ariew -- Innovation and continuity in the history of astronomy : the case of the rotating moon / Alan Gabbey -- The heavens and earth : Bellarmine and Galileo / Joseph Pitt -- The blasphemy of Alfonso X : history or myth? / Bernard R. Goldstein -- Cavalieri's indivisibles and Euclid's canons / François De Gandt -- Descartes' Geometry and the classical tradition / Emily Grosholz.