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Introduction: Natural Philosophy In The Early Modern Academic Milieu / Andrea Sangiacomo -- Fromondus Versus Galileo On Comets / Roger Ariew -- Institutioni Scholasticae Minime Accommodata: De Neufville And Clauberg On Not Teaching Bacon / Stefan Heßbrüggen-walter -- Domesticating Descartes, Renovating Scholasticism: Johann Clauberg And The German Reception Of Cartesianism / Nabeel Hamid -- Methods Of Teaching Or Discovery? Analysis And Synthesis From Zabarella To Spinoza / Helen Hattab -- Caspar Langenhert's Parisian 'school Of Egoists' And The Reception Of Geulincx's Physics, From Occasionalism To Solipsism / Michael Jaworzyn -- 'following No Party But The Truth': Petrus Van Musschenbroek's Rhetorical Defence Of (newtonian) Experimental Philosophy / Pieter Present -- Speculative Philosophy At The Berlin Academy / Christian Leduc -- The Normalisation Of Natural Philosophy: Occasional Causality And Coarse-grained Reality / Andrea Sangiacomo. Guest Editor, Andrea Sangiacomo. Includes Bibliographical References. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.
This volume investigates how early modern universities adapted traditional scholastic frameworks to accommodate the emergence of new natural philosophies. Guest editor Andrea Sangiacomo and various contributors analyze the institutional, pedagogical, and rhetorical strategies employed by scholars to integrate or resist innovations from figures such as Galileo, Descartes, and Newton within the academic milieu.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Scholars in the history of science and philosophy view this collection as a specialized resource for understanding the transition between late scholasticism and early modern scientific thought. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which assumes a foundational knowledge of early modern philosophical terminology and institutional history.
Page Count:
432
Publication Date:
2020-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0192646044
ISBN-13:
9780192646040
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