John Wilkins (1614-1672): New Essays
John Wilkins (1614-1672): New Essays

Author: William Poole

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 9004348093

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John Wilkins (1614-72): New Essays presents ten fresh essays on the life and work of the influential English natural philosopher and theologian, John Wilkins. Wilkins, one of the most prominent figures in the scientific revolution in England, and a founder of the Royal Society of London, published widely on astronomy, mechanics, language, and theology, and was also an important churchman and politician. These ten essays review Wilkins’s writings and influence, while also addressing the wider contexts of his activities, including his service as head of house at two successive colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, and his political work. This new collection thus covers all aspects of Wilkins’s career, and functions as a complete reappraisal of this seminal early modern figure. Contributors are: C. S. L. Davies, Mordechai Feingold, Felicity Henderson, Natalie Kaoukji, Rhodri Lewis, Scott Mandelbrote, Jon Parkin, William Poole, Anna Marie Roos, and Richard Serjeantson.

John Wilkins 1614-1672
John Wilkins 1614-1672

Author: Barbara J. Shapiro

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0520370562

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Manipulating the Sun
Manipulating the Sun

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-18

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9004677658

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This volume puts two biblical miracles - the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahaz) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 -, in the early modern period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Copernican arguments (in text and image), their reception, their treatment in the mathematical sciences, and their various cultural layers, with a focus on the history of art and the history of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The material discussed spreads from rather prosaic mathematical reflections to highly appealing visual representations of the two miracles.

John Wilkins and 17th-century British Linguistics
John Wilkins and 17th-century British Linguistics

Author: Joseph L. Subbiondo

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 9027245541

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In this reader, 19 articles have been collected that bring out the central position of John Wilkins and his Essay Toward a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) in the history of ideas in 17th-century Britain.