Author: Richard Foster Jones
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486244143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Engaging, erudite study of rise of scientific movement in 17th-century England; Francis Bacon s role particularly stressed. Revised (1961) edition."
Ancients and Moderns
Author: Richard Foster Jones
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486244143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Engaging, erudite study of rise of scientific movement in 17th-century England; Francis Bacon s role particularly stressed. Revised (1961) edition."
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486244143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Engaging, erudite study of rise of scientific movement in 17th-century England; Francis Bacon s role particularly stressed. Revised (1961) edition."
The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England
Author: James Dougal Fleming
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331940301X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a curious episode in the history of language, but as an illuminating avatar of information technology. A non-oral code, supposedly amounting to a script of things, the character was to support scientific discourse through a universal database, in alignment with cosmic truths. In all these ways, J.D. Fleming argues, the world of the character bears phenomenological comparison to the world of modern digital information—what has been called the infosphere.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331940301X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a curious episode in the history of language, but as an illuminating avatar of information technology. A non-oral code, supposedly amounting to a script of things, the character was to support scientific discourse through a universal database, in alignment with cosmic truths. In all these ways, J.D. Fleming argues, the world of the character bears phenomenological comparison to the world of modern digital information—what has been called the infosphere.
The role of the scientific societies in the seventeenth century
Author: Martha Ornstein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Distinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions
Author: Jason M. Rampelt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004409149
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Distinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions is an intellectual biography of John Wallis (1616-1703), professor of mathematics at Oxford for over half a century. His career spans the political tumult of the English Civil Wars, the religious upheaval of the Church of England, and the fascinating developments in mathematics and natural philosophy. His ability to navigate this terrain and advance human learning in the academic world was facilitated by his use of the Jesuit Francisco Suarez’s theory of distinctions. This Roman Catholic’s philosophy in the hands of a Protestant divine fostered an instrumentalism necessary to bridge the old and new. With this tool, Wallis brought modern science into the university and helped form the Royal Society.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004409149
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Distinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions is an intellectual biography of John Wallis (1616-1703), professor of mathematics at Oxford for over half a century. His career spans the political tumult of the English Civil Wars, the religious upheaval of the Church of England, and the fascinating developments in mathematics and natural philosophy. His ability to navigate this terrain and advance human learning in the academic world was facilitated by his use of the Jesuit Francisco Suarez’s theory of distinctions. This Roman Catholic’s philosophy in the hands of a Protestant divine fostered an instrumentalism necessary to bridge the old and new. With this tool, Wallis brought modern science into the university and helped form the Royal Society.
Manuscripts, Upon Papyrus, Vellum, and Paper, in Various Languages
Author: Thorpe, Thomas, firm, booksellers, London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
The Enthusianstical Concerns of Dr. Henry More
Author: Daniel Clifford Fouke
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004106000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Fouke examines the anti-enthusiastical crusade of the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More, while exploring connections between Hermeticism, Cartesianism, and religious radicalism. More is shown to offer, through the dialectical employment of speech genres, a consistent ideal of the spiritual life.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004106000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Fouke examines the anti-enthusiastical crusade of the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More, while exploring connections between Hermeticism, Cartesianism, and religious radicalism. More is shown to offer, through the dialectical employment of speech genres, a consistent ideal of the spiritual life.
The Chemical Philosophy
Author: Allen G. Debus
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486150216
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Swiss-born physician and alchemist Paracelsus (1493–1541) and his disciples espoused a doctrine they proclaimed as a truly Christian interpretation of nature in chemistry. Drawing upon a mixture of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance sources, they developed a new philosophy that interpreted both macrocosmic and microcosmic events through the personal observations of the chemist and the Divine Grace of the Lord. Until the publication of this book, however, the breadth and vicissitudes of the Paracelsian approach to nature and medicine had been little studied. This volume spans more than a century, providing a rich record of the major interests of the Paracelsian and other chemical philosophers and the conflicts in which they engaged with their contemporaries. It examines chemistry and nature in the Renaissance, the Paracelsian debates, the theories of Robert Fludd, the Helmontian restatement of the chemical philosophy, and many other issues of this transitional era in the history of science. Enhanced with 36 black-and-white illustrations, this well-researched and compellingly related study will fascinate students of the history of science, chemistry, and medicine.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486150216
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Swiss-born physician and alchemist Paracelsus (1493–1541) and his disciples espoused a doctrine they proclaimed as a truly Christian interpretation of nature in chemistry. Drawing upon a mixture of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance sources, they developed a new philosophy that interpreted both macrocosmic and microcosmic events through the personal observations of the chemist and the Divine Grace of the Lord. Until the publication of this book, however, the breadth and vicissitudes of the Paracelsian approach to nature and medicine had been little studied. This volume spans more than a century, providing a rich record of the major interests of the Paracelsian and other chemical philosophers and the conflicts in which they engaged with their contemporaries. It examines chemistry and nature in the Renaissance, the Paracelsian debates, the theories of Robert Fludd, the Helmontian restatement of the chemical philosophy, and many other issues of this transitional era in the history of science. Enhanced with 36 black-and-white illustrations, this well-researched and compellingly related study will fascinate students of the history of science, chemistry, and medicine.
Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe
Author: David Beck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317317386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with ‘knowledge’ being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317317386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with ‘knowledge’ being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.
John Webster
Author: Carl Vopel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description