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Brief van Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655) aan André Rivet (1572-1651)
Author: Brief van Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655) aan André Rivet (1572-1651)
Author: Adam Boreel (1602–1665): A Collegiant’s Attempt to Reform Christianity
Author: Francesco QuatriniPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004443398
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 439
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In Adam Boreel (1602-1665): A Collegiant’s Attempt to Reform Christianity, Francesco Quatrini offers an account of the life and thought of Adam Boreel, a leading member of the seventeenth-century Collegiant movement in Amsterdam.
Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives
Author: Martha Moffitt PeacockPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004432159
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.
Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde
Author: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afd. LetterkundePublisher:
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Category : Humanities
Languages : nl
Pages : 594
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The Calvinist Copernicans
Author: R. H. VermijPublisher: Edita Publishing House of the Royal
ISBN: 9789069843407
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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When it was published in 1543, Copernicus's new astronomy had an enormous impact on intellectual life in early modern Europe, but the reception of his new ideas differed fundamentally from one country to another. Rienk Vermij discusses how—unlike in Roman Catholic lands—discussion in the heavily Calvinist Dutch Republic was initially dominated by humanist scholars who judged Copernicus's work on its mathematical merits. Yet even in this environment, it could not escape eventual philosophical, religious, and political controversies. This book shows how Copernicus's astronomy changed from an alternative cosmology into an established worldview in the Dutch Republic.
Descartes and the Dutch
Author: Theo VerbeekPublisher: Journal on the History of Phil
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Theo Verbeek provides the first book-length examination of the initial reception of Descartes's written works. Drawing on his research of primary materials written in Dutch and Latin and found in libraries all over Europe, even including the Soviet Union, Theo Verbeek opens a period of Descartes's life and of the development of Cartesian philosophy that has been virtually closed since Descartes's death. Verbeek's aim is to provide as complete a picture as possible of the discussions that accompanied the introduction of Descartes's philosophy into Dutch universities, especially those in Utrecht and Leiden, and to analyze some of the major problems that philosophy raised in the eyes of Aristotelian philosophers and orthodox theologians. The period covered extends from 1637, the year in which Descartes published his Discours de la Méthode, until his death in 1650. Verbeek demonstrates how Cartesian philosophy moved successfully into the schools and universities of Holland and how this resulted in a real evolution of Descartes's thought beyond the somewhat dogmatic position of Descartes himself. Verbeek further argues that this progression was an essential step in the universal propagation of Cartesian philosophy throughout Europe during the second half of the seventeenth century. As he details the disputes between Cartesians and anti-Cartesians in Holland, Verbeek shows how the questions raised were related on the one hand to religious conflicts between the Remonstrants and the Orthodox Calvinists and on the other hand to political conflicts between more liberal factions fighting for the union of church and state to enhance religious control of society in general. Contending that Descartes and Cartesian philosophy were central to the development of the modern Dutch state, Verbeek illuminates the role they played in Dutch political, religious, and intellectual life.
Virtue and Venom
Author: Glenda McLeodPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472102068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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"Virtue and Venom 'traces a general history of ., . the catalog of women - focusing especially on ... the close of the Middle Ages' (1). McLeod defines catalogs of women as 'lists - sometimes found in other works, sometimes found alone - enumerating pagan and (sometimes) Christian heroines who jointly define a notion of femineity'. The assumption that the women included in catalogs 'define a notion of femineity, ' a term she uses to rid her book of the connotations of 'femininity', is central to McLeod's study. ...
Humanism in an Age of Science
Author: Dirk Van MiertPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004176853
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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In 1632, the Amsterdam regents founded an Athenaeum or 'Illustrious School'. This kind of institution provided academic teaching, although it could not grant degrees and had no compulsory four-faculty system. Athenaeums proliferated in the first century after the Dutch Revolt, but few of them survived long. They have been interpreted as the manifestation of an evolving vision of the role of a higher education; this book, by contrast, argues that education at the Amsterdam Athenaeum was staunchly traditional both in methods and in substance. While religious, philosophical and scientific disputes rocked contemporary Dutch learned society, this analysis of letters, orations and disputations reveals that a traditional and Aristotelian humanism thrived at the Athenaeum until well into the seventeenth century.
The History of Women Philosophers
Author: Gilles MénagePublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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