The Fifth Discourse Concerning the Spontaneous Generation of Live Things. [An Extract from a Translation of D. Sennert's “Hypomnemata Physica.”]
Author: Daniel SENNERTUS
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Published: 1660
Total Pages: 64
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Author: Daniel SENNERTUS
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Published: 1660
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christoph Lüthy
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9089644385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology. The aim of this book is to shed light on Gorlaeus’ family circumstances, his education at Franeker and Leiden, and on the virulent Arminian crisis which provided the context within which his work was written. It also attempts to define Gorlaeus’ place in the history of Dutch philosophy and to assess the influence that it exercised in the evolution of philosophy and science, and notably in early Cartesian circles. Christoph Lüthy is professor of the history of philosophy and science at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Author: Antonio Clericuzio
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780792367826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution. Science historians have regarded chemistry and corpuscular philosophy as two distinct traditions. Clericuzio's view is that since the beginning of the 17th century atomism and chemistry were strictly connected. This is attested by Daniel Sennert and by many hitherto little-known French and English natural philosophers. They often combined a corpuscular theory of matter with Paracelsian chemical (and medical) doctrines. Boyle plays a central part in the present book: Clericuzio redefines Boyle's chemical views, by showing that Boyle did not subordinate chemistry to the principles of mechanical philosophy. When Boyle explained chemical phenomena, he had recourse to corpuscles endowed with chemical, not mechanical, properties. The combination of chemistry and corpuscular philosophy was adopted by a number of chemists active in the last decades of the 17th century, both in England and on the Continent. Using a large number of primary sources, the author challenges the standard view of the corpuscular theory of matter as identical with the mechanical philosophy. He points out that different versions of the corpuscular philosophy flourished in the 17th century. Most of them were not based on the mechanical theory, i.e. on the view that matter is inert and has only mechanical properties. Throughout the 17th century, active principles, as well as chemical properties, are attributed to corpuscles. Given its broad coverage, the book is a significant contribution to both history of science and history of philosophy.
Author: Stephen Toulmin
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A coherent general account of the whole field we have called “matter-theory” (i.e. the physics, chemistry and physiology of material things, both inanimate and animate) as it has evolved since the very beginnings of science.” – Authors’ foreword.
Author: J. L. Heilbron
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2000-09-01
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0674238044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this moving and eloquent portrait, John Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. With great understanding, he shows how Max Planck suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service to his country and to physics was confronted by the realities of World War I and the brutalities of the Third Reich. In an afterword written for this edition, Heilbron weighs the recurring questions among historians and scientists about the costs to others, and to Planck himself, of the painful choices he faced in attempting to build an “ark” to carry science and scientists through the storms of Nazism.
Author: R. Crocker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9401702179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first modern biography to place Henry More’s (1614-1687) religious and philosophical preoccupations centre-stage, and to provide a coherent interpretation of his work from a consideration of his own writings, their contexts and aims. It is also the first study of More to exploit the full range of his prolific writings and a number of unknown manuscripts relating to his life. It contains an annotated handlist of his extant correspondence.
Author: James Warren
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-06-17
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0199252890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Warren examines and evaluates the argument that death is 'nothing to us'. He sets this against modern philosophical accounts of how death can be a harm and asks whether a life free from all fear of death is an attractive option and what the consequences would be of a full acceptance of the Epicureans' views.
Author: Henry More
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Published: 1655
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Warren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-02
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1139828169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the Early Modern period, introducing the reader to the Epicureans' contributions in physics, metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics and politics. The international team of contributors includes scholars who have produced innovative and original research in various areas of Epicurean thought and they have produced essays which are accessible and of interest to philosophers, classicists, and anyone concerned with the diversity and preoccupations of Epicurean philosophy and the state of academic research in this field. The volume emphasises the interrelation of the different areas of the Epicureans' philosophical interests while also drawing attention to points of interpretative difficulty and controversy.
Author: Keith D. Stanglin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9004156089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith special attention to the academic context and sources of the Leiden debate, this book examines Jacobus Arminius's doctrines of salvation and the assurance of salvation, demonstrating the decisive role that assurance played in his dissent from Reformed theology.