isbn 978-908-72-8137-3
15,6x23,4 cm, 256 pagina's,
Paperback, 2012
Engels
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E. Jorink, A. Maas
Newton and the Netherlands
How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic

In the course of the eighteenth century, Newton's ideas (in different guises and interpretations) became a veritable hype in Dutch society. In Newton & the Netherlands Newton's sudden success is analyzed in great depth and put into a new perspective.
'A new light on several major figures involved in the reception of Newton's work' (prof. Bert Theunissen, Institute for the History and Foundations of Science/ Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University'This book provides an important contribution to the study of the European Enlightenment with new insights in the circulation of knowledge.' (prof. Frans van Lunteren, Leiden University)

Ad Maas is curator at the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, the Netherlands. Eric Jorink is researcher at the Huygens Institute for Netherlands History (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences). He is the author of Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 (Leiden 2010).

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'A new light on several major figures involved in the reception of Newton's work' (prof. Bert Theunissen, Institute for the History and Foundations of Science/ Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University'This book provides an important contribution to the study of the European Enlightenment with new insights in the circulation of knowledge.' (prof. Frans van Lunteren, Leiden University)