Newton and the Netherlands : how Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Dutch Republic
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Newton and the Netherlands : how Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Dutch Republic
Leiden University Press, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In the course of the eighteenth century, Newton's ideas (in different guises and interpretations) became a veritable hype in Dutch society. In Newton & the Netherlands Newton's sudden success is analyzed in great depth and put into a new perspective. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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Contents - 6 Introduction - 8 'The Miracle of Our Time' How Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Netherlands - 14 Servant of Two Masters Fatio de Duillier between Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton - 68 How Newtonian Was Herman Boerhaave? - 94 The Man Who Erased Himself Willem Jacob 's Gravesande and the Enlightenment - 114 'The Wisest Man to Whom this Earth Has as Yet Given Birth' Petrus van Musschenbroek and the limits of Newtonian natural philosophy - 140 Low Country Opticks optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch 'Newtonianism' - 160 Defining the Supernatural Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature - 186 Anti-Newtonianism and Radical Enlightenment - 208 Newtonianism at the Dutch Universitie sduring the Enlightenment teaching of 'philosophy' from 's Gravesande to Van Swinden - 228 Authors - 251 Index - 253
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