Science and the shape of orthodoxy : intellectual change in late seventeenth-century Britain
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Science and the shape of orthodoxy : intellectual change in late seventeenth-century Britain
Boydell Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Studies of specific figures - including John Evelyn, Christopher Wren, John Flamsteed -illuminate intellectual change in 17c.
The rise of the new, experimental science coexisted with other intellectual traditions which displayed equal vitality, including historical and philological learning, attitudes to magic and the wisdom of antiquity, and anxiety about what contemporaries called `atheism'.The studies in this book illuminate this complex state of affairs by focusing on specific figures and episodes. New light is shed on the career of John Evelyn through the use of his extensive manuscripts, hitherto hardly exploited, and the attitude to astrology of the first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, is reconsidered. Other important figures examined include Christopher Wren and Elias Ashmole, occultist and founder of the first public museum in Britain. These studies underlie the new theory of intellectual change in this key period propounded in the introduction.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The formative generation: Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) - the founder of the Ashmolean museum and his world
- the making of Christopher Wren
- John Evelyn in the 1650s - a virtuoso in quest of a role. Part 2 The Royal Society and the new science: the debate over science
- first steps in institutionalization - the role of the Royal Society of London
- the Cabinet institutionalized - the Royal Society's repository and it's background
- the Crown, the public and the new science 1689-1702. Part 3 Science and learning: the early Royal Society and the shape of knowledge
- the Royal Society and the origins of British archaeology
- the origins of the Oxford University Press
- ancients, moderns, philologists and scientists. Part 4 The definition of orthodoxy: science and heterodoxy - an early modern problem reconsidered
- science and astrology in 17th-century England - an unpublished polemic by John Flamstead
- "Aikenhead the Atheist" - the context and consequences of articulate irreligion in the late-17th century. Appendices: a note on early English usage of the word "museum"
- the text of Flamsteed's "Hecker".
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