Constantijn Huygens And The Rationalist Revolution
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Constantijn Huygens And The Rationalist Revolution
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Author : Rosalie Littell Colie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Constantijn Huygens And The Rationalist Revolution written by Rosalie Littell Colie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with categories.
Reading The Book Of Nature In The Dutch Golden Age 1575 1715
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Author : Eric Jorink
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-10-25
Reading The Book Of Nature In The Dutch Golden Age 1575 1715 written by Eric Jorink and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-25 with History categories.
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.
Lenses And Waves
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Author : Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-01-20
Lenses And Waves written by Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-20 with Science categories.
In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traité de la Lumière, containing his renowned wave theory of light. It is considered a landmark in seventeenth-century science, for the way Huygens mathematized the corpuscular nature of light and his probabilistic conception of natural knowledge. This book discusses the development of Huygens' wave theory, reconstructing the winding road that eventually led to Traité de la Lumière. For the first time, the full range of manuscript sources is taken into account. In addition, the development of Huygens' thinking on the nature of light is put in the context of his optics as a whole, which was dominated by his lifelong pursuit of theoretical and practical dioptrics. In so doing, this book offers the first account of the development of Huygens' mathematical analysis of lenses and telescopes and its significance for the origin of the wave theory of light. As Huygens applied his mathematical proficiency to practical issues pertaining to telescopes – including trying to design a perfect telescope by means of mathematical theory – his dioptrics is significant for our understanding of seventeenth-century relations between theory and practice. With this full account of Huygens' optics, this book sheds new light on the history of seventeenth-century optics and the rise of the new mathematical sciences, as well as Huygens' oeuvre as a whole. Students of the history of optics, of early mathematical physics, and the Scientific Revolution, will find this book enlightening.
Dutch Light
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Author : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2020-09-03
Dutch Light written by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' – Simon Ings, Spectator 'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.' – Literary Review Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens’s remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than the story of the birth of modern science as we know it. Europe’s greatest scientist during the latter half of the seventeenth century, Christiaan Huygens was a true polymath. A towering figure in the fields of astronomy, optics, mechanics, and mathematics, many of his innovations in methodology, optics and timekeeping remain in use to this day. Among his many achievements, he developed the theory of light travelling as a wave, invented the mechanism for the pendulum clock, and discovered the rings of Saturn – via a telescope that he had also invented. A man of fashion and culture, Christiaan came from a family of multi-talented individuals whose circle included not only leading figures of Dutch society, but also artists and philosophers such as Rembrandt, Locke and Descartes. The Huygens family and their contemporaries would become key actors in the Dutch Golden Age, a time of unprecedented intellectual expansion within the Netherlands. Set against a backdrop of worldwide religious and political turmoil, this febrile period was defined by danger, luxury and leisure, but also curiosity, purpose, and tremendous possibility. Following in Huygens’s footsteps as he navigates this era while shuttling opportunistically between countries and scientific disciplines, Hugh Aldersey-Williams builds a compelling case to reclaim Huygens from the margins of history and acknowledge him as one of our most important and influential scientific figures.
Pierre Bayle 1647 1706 Le Philosophe De Rotterdam Philosophy Religion And Reception
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Author : Wiep van Bunge
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-06-04
Pierre Bayle 1647 1706 Le Philosophe De Rotterdam Philosophy Religion And Reception written by Wiep van Bunge and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-04 with History categories.
This book contains 15 essays on the philosophy, theology and reception of Pierre Bayle, who is now generally regarded as one of the key authors of the early Enlightenment.
Some Thankfulnesse To Constantine
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Author : Rosalie L. Colie
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1956
Some Thankfulnesse To Constantine written by Rosalie L. Colie and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Education categories.
The title of this book, taken from Thomas Goffe's unwieldy com plimentary poem to Constantijn Huygens, expresses some part of my own debt to him. Seven years ago, in search of a key to Anglo Dutch relations in the late Renaissance, I was rewarded by this gigantic Huygens, because of his close Connections with English life and his deep involvement with the life of bis own country apparently the perfect guide to the difficult and often tedious territory of Anglo-Dutch cultural relations. To the student attacking a new subject, wealth of documen tation means much: Huygens left behind him eight volumes of poetry, six volumes of letters, together with many published books, pamphlets and notes, rich in the material of his English 1 journeys. However illuminating at the start of an investigation, this wealth soon proved itself an embarrassment. After a little I was plunged into a cloud of unknowing, feverishly striking out in too many directions, following too many leads, amassing too many notes on too many subjects. For Huygens was almost too good an exemplar of his time: his interests were too wide to comprehend, his manifold function too difficult to grasp. No Rum pelstiltskin came at night to help, no friendly ants to clear away the mountains of grain.
Constantijn Huygens
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Author : Hans Bots
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Constantijn Huygens written by Hans Bots and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Europe categories.
Constantijn Huygens 1596 1687
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Author : Hendrik Arie Hofman
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Constantijn Huygens 1596 1687 written by Hendrik Arie Hofman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Diplomats categories.
Leven en werk van de Nederlandse dichter-diplomaat, met bijzondere aandacht voor zijn functie van secretaris van opeenvolgende stadhouders.
From Bayle To The Batavian Revolution
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Author : Wiep van Bunge
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-10-22
From Bayle To The Batavian Revolution written by Wiep van Bunge and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-22 with Philosophy categories.
Thirteen chapters on individual authors such as Spinoza, Bayle, Van Effen and Hemsterhuis, and on schools of thought such as Dutch Cartesianism, Newtonianism and Wolffianism. It also addresses the early Dutch reception of Kant.
Huygens And Hofwijck
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Author : Kees van der Leer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-03
Huygens And Hofwijck written by Kees van der Leer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03 with categories.
Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics. He was also secretary and confidant to three princes of Orange for 62 years. Hofwijck was also the place where Constantijn's son Christiaan spent a significant part of his life. Christiaan Huygens was a member of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge and became one of the greatest inventors and scientists. At the end of his life, at Hofwijck, he wrote Cosmotheoros, his magnum opus on the universe. At Huygens's Hofwijck we look at the seventeenth century through the eyes of these two versatile men. With Constantijn and Christiaan, the story is about literature, art, music, politics, the House of Orange, science and life at a seventeenth-century country estate.