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Bizarre wetenschap : vreemde en opzienbarende experimenten
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ISBN: 9085530091 9789085530091 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leuven Rijswijk Van Halewyck Elmar

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Korte beschrijvingen van ruim honderd wetenschappelijke experimenten vanaf de Middeleeuwen met nadruk op de twintigste eeuw.


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Sartonia.
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Publisher: Gent : RUG. Museum voor de geschiedenis van de wetenschappen,

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Révolution scientifique et libertinage
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ISBN: 2503510086 9782503510088 Year: 2000 Volume: 11 48 11 48 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols


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The printing press as an agent of change : communications and cultural transformations in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 0521220440 Year: 1979 Publisher: Cambridge,New York : Cambridge University Press,


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Embattled territory : the circulation of knowledge in the Spanish Netherlands
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ISBN: 9789038225685 9038225687 Year: 2015 Publisher: Gent : Academia Press,

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The classical view of science in the Spanish Netherlands harbors implicit assumptions, which need to be reconsidered in the light of contemporary historiography. Approaching the history of science from the perspective of the circulation of knowledge, this book indicates new paths of research furthering the integration of the history of science into wider, general history. To accomplish this aim the book raises three sets of questions. The first question concerns the role of cities in the production and transmission of knowledge and skills in the Spanish Netherlands, with the Southern Netherlands being home to one of the densest urban networks in the world. In a second step, the book discusses how the Southern Netherlands were entangled with the rest of the globe through the Spanish Empire, and the Atlantic world in particular. How did these Iberian connections shape the circulation of knowledge in the Spanish Netherlands? Thirdly, did the definition and nature of knowledge change in the Spanish Netherlands and how was this related to processes of political and religious transformation? Focusing on urban knowledge, Iberian connections, and the politics of knowledge, this book offers a new framework for the history of science in the Spanish Netherlands.


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ISSN: 13772155 ISBN: 907096337X Publisher: Gent : Academia press,


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Histoire des sciences en Belgique : 1815-2000
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ISBN: 2871932808 2804605450 9782804605452 Year: 2001 Publisher: Tournai : Bruxelles : La Renaissance du livre ; Dexia banque,

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partie 1 : 344 p. 0F partie 2 : 312 p. Titre néerlandais : N16879 : Geschiedenis van de wetenschappen in België : 1815-2000

The 'Arabick' interest of the natural philosophers in seventeenth-century England
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ISSN: 09208607 ISBN: 9004098887 9004247068 9789004098886 Year: 1994 Volume: 47 Publisher: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill,

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The medieval concern with Arabic is well established. There was, however, a 'second wave' of Arabic interest in seventeenth-century Europe, which is not widely known. The essays in this volume reveal that, contrary to all expectation, the study of Arabic was pursued by a circle of natural philosophers, philologists and theologians in England in close contact with those on the Continent. Arabic was defended as an aid to biblical exegesis and as the key to a 'treasure house' of ancient knowledge. It led to the founding of Arabic chairs at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, endowed by archbishops and merchants. Arabic was taught, along with Hebrew, at Westminster school. Immense collections of Arabic manuscripts were acquired both privately and by libraries, such as the Bodleian at Oxford. They were sought after by natural philosophers in their research in observational astronomy or in the reconstruction of Greek mathematics. Arabic was also part of the Anglican interest in Eastern Churches. In addition to the earlier elegant editions of the Medici Press at Rome, bi-lingual texts, grammars, lexicons, and histories, were published by trained Arabists. Forgeries emerged based on Arabo-Latin alchemical texts. Arabic was included in the concern with a universal philosophical language. Arabic subjects featured extensively in the correspondence of the Royal Society. The impact of translated texts extended to the Quakers as well as to individual figures, such as Locke. In short, at a time when least expected, Arabic interest permeated all levels of English society, encompassing subjects which ranged from science, religion, and medicine, to typography and importing garden plants. Fourteen historians from different disciplines examine the extent and sources of this phenomenon. Arabic interest is shown to have been a significant aspect of the rise of Protestant intellectual tradition. It was also a major component of University reforms and of secular academic scholarship at Oxford and Cambridge. Thus the period also marks the institutionalisation of Arabic studies. By identifying many unexpected 'Arabick' strands in the complex skein of seventeenth-century English concerns, this volume opens new lines of investigation and challenges some of the accepted historical interpretations of the period.

History of scholarship : a selection of papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute
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ISBN: 9780199284313 0199284318 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford ; New York ; Madrid Oxford University Press

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