Author: Samuel Hartlib
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052107715X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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This book focuses on Samuel Hartlib and his vision of education towards the natural sciences.

Author: Richard Yeo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022610673X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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In Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. Notebooks were important to several key members of the Royal Society of London, including Robert Boyle, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, John Locke, and others, who drew on Renaissance humanist techniques of excerpting from texts to build storehouses of proverbs, maxims, quotations, and other material in personal notebooks, or commonplace books. Yeo shows that these men appreciated the value of their own notes both as powerful tools for personal recollection, and, following Francis Bacon, as a system of precise record keeping from which they could retrieve large quantities of detailed information for collaboration. The virtuosi of the seventeenth century were also able to reach beyond Bacon and the humanists, drawing inspiration from the ancient Hippocratic medical tradition and its emphasis on the gradual accumulation of information over time. By reflecting on the interaction of memory, notebooks, and other records, Yeo argues, the English virtuosi shaped an ethos of long-term empirical scientific inquiry.

Author: Mark Greengrass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520119
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Samuel Hartlib was a key figure in the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth century. Originally from Elbing, in Prussig, Hartlib settled permanently in England from the late 1620s until his death in 1662. His aspirations formed a distinctive and influential strand in English intellectual life during those revolutionary decades. This volume reflects the variety of the theoretical and practical interests of Hartlib's circle and presents them in their continental context. The editors of the volume are all attached to the Hartlib Papers Project at the University of Sheffield, a major collaborative research effort to exploit the largely untapped resources of the surviving Hartlib manuscripts. In an introduction to the volume they explore the background to the Hartlib circle and provide the context in which the essays should be read.

Author: Vera Keller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107110130
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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This study shows that modernity has its origins in the advancement of knowledge, and not in the Scientific Revolution.

Author: John Dury
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: George Henry Turnbull
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educators
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Author: Rhodri Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521874750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Language, Mind and Nature is a 2007 text which fully reconstructs this artificial language movement. In so doing, it reveals a great deal about the beliefs and activities of those who sought to reform learning in seventeenth-century England.

Author: Phyllis Mack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521527026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Essays taking up themes that have resonated through Professor Koenigsberger's lectures, seminars and public writings.

Author: Paul Slack
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191542598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. Aspirations for wholesale reformation were replaced by more specific schemes for improvement. Paul Slack's analysis of this decisive shift of focus, derived from his 1995 Ford Lectures, examines its intellectual and political roots. He describes the policies and rhetoric of the commonwealthsmen, godly magistrates, Stuart monarchs, Interregnum projectors, and early Hanoverian philanthropists, and the institutions — notably hospitals and workhouses - which they created or reformed. In a series of thematic chapters, each linked to a chronological period, he brings together what might seem to have been disparate notions and activities, and shows that they expressed a sequence of coherent approaches towards public welfare. The result is a strikingly original study, which throws fresh light on the formation of civic consciousness and the emergence of a civil society in early modern England.

Author: Martin M. Tweedale
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 1772126586
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology in the West energized an economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic rulers, analyzing how respect for custom and tradition gave way to the dominance of top-down rational planning and organization. Then in response came a highly attractive myth of an eventual future rid of all of humankind's ills, one in which life would be “made wonderful.” Originating in Zoroastrianism and, through Jewish apocalyptic works, flowing into early Christianity, this myth produced utopian beliefs that set the West apart from the other civilizations. Tweedale shows how these beliefs became popular among Western elites in the early modern period and eventually resulted in the distinctly Western doctrine of progress. This doctrine, an almost religious faith in the capacity of science and technology to improve human life, released economic expansion from traditional constraints and has led to our current environmental emergency. Exploring sources from philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas, Making Wonderful is for all readers who are intellectually curious about the roots of our eco-catastrophe.