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Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800 (Variorum Collected Studies)

By John Gascoigne

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1999
ISBN
0860787672, 9780860787679
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
309 MB (323535139 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
304\304
Time added
2024-09-20 16:04:19

Description

This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of the work is devoted to one key university- that of Cambridge- and examines the major issues of the institutional setting of Newton’s work, the religious and political circumstances that favoured its dissemination, and the way in which it was dealt with in the curriculum. But the author also seeks to place the problem of the role of science in the early modern university in a larger, European context. To do so, he includes a close prosopographical analysis of the scientific community from the mid-15th TO the end of the 18th century, and discusses the complex relations between the universities and the Enlightenment.

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