This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's scholarship has had on a range of fields and address several topics, including: the dynamic pedagogical techniques employed in early modern universities, networks of communication through which scientific knowledge was shared, experimental techniques and knowledge production, the life and times of Isaac Newton, Newton's reception, and the scientific culture of the Royal Society. Modeling the interdisciplinary approaches championed by Feingold as well as the essential role of archival studies, the volume attests to the enduring value of his scholarship and sets a benchmark for future work in the history of science and its allied fields.
Author(s): Anna Marie Roos, Gideon Manning
Series: Archimedes, 64
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 387
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Part I: History of Universities
Chapter 2: Theology and the Arts Course in Tudor Oxford: An Unknown Treatise on Church Government by John Case
2.1 Introduction
2.2 John Case and the Letter Against the Barrowists
2.3 ‘Barrowists’ vs. Bishops
2.4 The Religion of John Case, Revisited
2.5 Epilogue: The Fortunes of Case’s Epistola
References
Manuscripts
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Chapter 3: From Natio to Corps (1575–1820): The Birth of a New Type of Student Association in the Netherlands
3.1 Nationes
3.2 The Eighteenth Century: Diversification in Entertainment
3.3 New Organizational Forms?
3.4 Hazing
3.5 The Origin of the Corpora
3.6 Conclusion
References
Manuscripts
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Chapter 4: Daniel Sennert and the University of Padua: Circulation of Medical Knowledge and Scholars Across the Confessional Divide in the Seventeenth Century
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Daniel Sennert
4.3 Death of Daniel Sennert Jr.
4.4 Conclusion
Appendix
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Chapter 5: Learning by Crib: Some Seventeenth-Century Oxford ‘Systems’
5.1 The “Curricular Crib”
5.2 Prideaux’ Tironum Institutio
5.3 Conclusion
References
Manuscripts
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Chapter 6: Science in Trinity College Dublin in the Seventeenth Century
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Part II: Intellectual History
Chapter 7: Planks from a Shipwreck: Belief and Evidence in Sixteenth-Century Histories
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Section I
7.3 Section II
7.4 Section III
7.5 Section IV
References
Manuscripts
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Chapter 8: Galileo Among the Giants
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Limits of the Body
8.3 Networks of Knowledge
8.4 Rocks and Bones
8.5 Conclusion: Galileo Among the Giants
References
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Chapter 9: Galileo’s Fall of the Planets to the Copernican System of the World
References
Chapter 10: Descartes’ Experimental Journey Past the Prism and Through the Invisible World to the Rainbow
10.1 Preface
10.2 Cartesian Explanation and Experiment
10.3 Experiments with a Water-Filled Sphere
10.4 Using a Prism to Probe the Conditions of Color Production and of Color Order
10.5 A Journey Through the Invisible World
10.6 Pressed Spheres and a ‘Rosy’ Blue Suggest How to Generalize the Notion of an ‘Aperture’
10.7 The Clustering of Rays at a Cutoff Angle Simulates an Aperture Edge
10.8 The Apparent Position of the Solar Image and the Order of Colors Within It
10.9 Descartes’ Twisty Path to the Rainbow
References
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Secondary Sources
Part III: Newton
Chapter 11: Henry More’s Epistola H. Mori ad V.C. and the Cartesian Context of Newton’s Early Cambridge Years
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Henry More and Descartes
11.3 Henry More and Restoration Cambridge: A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings
11.4 Letters to Descartes
11.5 Epistola H. Mori ad V.C
11.6 Epistola…ad V.C. Post 1662
11.7 More and Newton
11.8 Conclusion
References
Manuscripts
Primary sources
Secondary Sources
Chapter 12: Newton as Theologian, Artisan, and Chamber-Fellow: Some New Documents
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Three New Letters from Newton to John Wickins
12.3 The Date and Meaning of the First Letter
12.4 Theology: The Second Letter
12.5 Theology: The Third Letter
12.6 Conclusion
Appendix
References
Manuscripts
Printed Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Chapter 13: Newtonianism and the Physics of Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique
13.1 Presentistic Senses
13.2 Straddling Senses
13.3 Contextual Senses
13.4 Newtonian Mechanics: Empirical Theory
13.5 Conclusions
References
Part IV: Royal Society Luminaries
Chapter 14: Whose Manner of Discourse? Sir William Petty, Civility, and the Early Royal Society
14.1 Scribal Culture
14.2 Duplicate Proportion and Discursive Controversy
Appendix
English Translations by David McOmish
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References
Manuscripts
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Chapter 15: The Doctoral Dissertation of Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712): The Nervous Fluids and Iatrochymistry in Context
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Matriculation at Leiden
15.3 Intellectual Context of Grew’s Dissertation
15.4 The Components of Nervous Fluid
15.5 The Dissertation and Grew’s Future Work
Appendix
References
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Secondary Sources
Chapter 16: William Whiston, Experimental Lecturing and the Royal Society of London
16.1 The Meteoric Rise and Fall of a Lucasian Professor
16.2 The Establishment of Public Experimental Lecturing in London, 1705–1712
16.3 Whiston’s Emergence as a Public Lecturer
16.4 The Whiston-Hauksbee Collaboration
16.5 The Audience for Experiment
16.6 Satirising Experiment
16.7 Whiston’s Independent Public Lecturing Career
16.8 Assessing Whiston’s Public Lecturing Career
Appendix I: Combined London lecture profile, 1705–1733
Appendix II: William Whiston’s lectures, 1701–1750
Appendix III: Profile of William Whiston’s base income, 1698–1752
References
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Publications of Mordechai Feingold
Monographs
Edited Collections
Articles, Book Chapters and Book Reviews
Index
