The conviction that Nature was God's second revelation played a crucial role in early modern Dutch culture. This book offers a fascinating account on how Dutch intellectuals contemplated, investigated, represented and collected natural objects, and how the notion of the 'Book of Nature' was transformed.
This book reveals a dynamic and often resilient picture of a society coping with calamity at odds with historical assessments of eighteenth-century stagnation.
From 1675 , the new professor Burchard de Volder ( 1643–1709 ) , a Cartesian , institutionalized the experimental ... Burchard de Volder and the Age of the Scientific Revolution ( Cham , Switzerland , 2019 ) , 619-49 ( appendix ) .
Disguised Vices analyses the underlying logic of these arguments, and investigates what is at stake in them.
Anja K. Sevcik (Cologne: Wallraf-RichartzMuseum & Fondation Corboud; Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2019), 29–42. ... The impact of Leiden as a university city has been widely noted by scholars, but it has not been examined in a ...
The ZKM throws new light on 17th century landscape painting. Comparable to modern satellite surveying (GPS), true to scale landscape representation is also indebted to the interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge:...
Hadrianus Junius was Holland’s most important scholar of the third quarter of the sixteenth century. This book analyses Junius’ most important works, some of which have never been studied before.
Empire of the Senses introduces new approaches to the history of European imperialism in the Americas by questioning the role that the five senses played in framing the cultural encounters, colonial knowledge, and political relationships ...
20 Already discussed in Chapter 5 ; Wolfson , The Philosophy of Spinoza , vol . 11 , pp . 261–74 , for example , and perhaps understandably in view of Wolfson's concentration on the influences on Spinoza rather than the use made of them ...
This volume describes how Isaas Vossius (1618-1689) rose to fame in the fascinating world of 17th-century scholarship and science.
"Trude Dijkstra discusses how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in printed works produced in the Dutch Republic between 1595 and 1700.