Author: Justus LipsiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages :
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Brief van Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) aan Carolus Clusius (1526-1609)
Author: Justus LipsiusBrief van Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) aan Carolus Clusius (1526-1609)
Author: Brieven van Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) aan Carolus Clusius (1526-1609)
Author: The World of Carolus Clusius
Author: Florike EgmondPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317324226
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Egmond's study investigates horticultural techniques, fashions in the collection of rare plants, botanical experimentation and methods of scientific evaluation, as well as tracking the exchange of knowledge. Central to this activity is the figure of Carolus Clusius (1526-1609), the first truly scientific botanist.
Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004186719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
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.
A Social History of Knowledge II
Author: Peter BurkePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745659616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, institutions, collective practices and general trends. The book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that activities which appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge, analysing, disseminating and employing it - are in fact time-bound and take different forms in different periods and places. The second part tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalist history of the 'growth' of knowledge by discussing losses of knowledge and the price of specialization. The third part offers geographical, sociological and chronological overviews, contrasting the experience of centres and peripheries and arguing that each of the main trends of the period - professionalization, secularization, nationalization, democratization, etc, coexisted and interacted with its opposite. As ever, Peter Burke presents a breath-taking range of scholarship in prose of exemplary clarity and accessibility. This highly anticipated second volume will be essential reading across the humanities and social sciences.
Spirits Unseen
Author: Christine GöttlerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004163964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Investigating the meanings and uses of "spiritus" in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields - natural philosophy, theology, music, literature and the visual arts - this book revisits the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change.
Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004279172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
This volume tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of the different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. Early modern reading of the “Book of Nature” comprised, among others, the description of species in the literary tradition of antiquity, as well as empirical observations, vivisection, and modern eyewitness accounts; the “translation” of zoological species into visual art for devotion, prayer, and religious education, but also scientific and scholarly curiosity; theoretical, philosophical, and theological thinking regarding God’s creation, the Flood, and the generation of animals; new attempts with respect to nomenclature and taxonomy; the discovery of unknown species in the New World; impressive Wunderkammer collections, and the keeping of exotic animals in princely menageries. The volume demonstrates that theology and philology played a pivotal role in the complex formation of this new science. Contributors include: Brian Ogilvie, Bernd Roling, Erik Jorink, Paul Smith, Sabine Kalff, Tamás Demeter, Amanda Herrin, Marrigje Rikken, Alexander Loose, Sophia Hendrikx, and Karl Enenkel.
RUBENS, VAN DYCK AND THE SPLENDOUR OF FLEMISH PAINTING.
Author: JULIA. TATRAIPublisher:
ISBN: 9786155987137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks
Author: Hélène CazesPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004192093
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This volume gathers studies and documentation on Bonaventura Vulcanius, a versatile philologist and writer who in 1581 settled in Leiden as a Professor of Greek and Latin. It includes many unpublished texts pertaining to this mysterious figure Dutch Humanism.