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Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
Title
Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period [electronic resource] / edited by Mordechai Feingold, Victor Navarro-Brotons.
ISBN
9781402039751
Publication
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (VIII, 310 p).
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Summary
The past two decades have witnessed a striking re evaluation of early modern institutions of higher learning as impoverished intellectual centers, hostile to new modes of thought. The present volume offers the most comprehensive synthesis to date of the fecundity of early modern universities, their receptivity to novel scientific ideas, and their contribution to the critical dialogue that vitalized the emergent European scientific community. The "soul" of the early modern university was its well-rounded, humanistically informed curriculum and the culture of erudition it inculcated. The authors of this volume offer a fresh assessment of how this course of study affected generations of natural philosophers, from the Iberian Peninsula to Scandinavia, from Italy to Scotland, even as it was increasingly modified to accommodate the new science. The fresh evidence gathered here emphasizes just how rigorously science was pursued by academics, notwithstanding institutional constraints. Individually, each paper illustrates the nexus of complexities specific locales made on the reception and transmission of scientific ideas; collectively, the papers offer a comparative framework that should prove invaluable in our evaluating the profound changes undergone by early modern universities during the era of Scientific Revolution.
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Language
English
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September 14, 2018
Series
Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 12
Contents
“Mathematics for Astronomy” at Universities in Copernicus’ Time: Modern Atitudes Toward Ancient Problems
The University of Salamanca and the Renaissance of Astronomy During the Second Half of the 15th Century
Medical Science and Medical Teaching at the University of Salamance in the 15th Century
The Faculty of Medicine of Valencia: Its Position in Renaissance Europe
The Cultivation of Astronomy in Spanish Universities in the Latter Half of the 16th Century
The Sphere of Jacques du Chevreul: Astronomy at the University of Paris in the 1620s
Lectures and Practices. The Variety of Mathematical and Mechanical Teaching at the University of Uppsala in the 17th Century
Mathematical Research in Italian Universities in the Modern Era
Universities, Academies, and Sciences in Italy in the Modern Age
Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in Portuguese Universities, 1550–1650
Venetian Policy Toward the University of Padua and Scientific Progress During the 18th Century
Candide in Caledonia: The Culture of Science in the Scottish Universities, 1690–1805
The Sciences at the University of Rome in the 18th Century
Enlightenment and Renovation in the Spanish University
Spanish Chemistry Textbooks During Late 18th Century: Building up a New Genre of Scientific Literature
Botany in University Studies in the Late 18th Century. The Case of Valencia University
Scientific Education and the Crisis of the University in 18th Century Barcelona
The Theories of Copernicus and Newton in the Viceroyship of Nueva Granada and the Audiencia De Caracas During the 18th Century.
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