SCIENCE, POLITICS AND UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE, 1600-1800 by John Gascoigne ( 9780860787679 )

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SCIENCE, POLITICS AND UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE, 1600-1800

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John Gascoigne

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0860787672

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

28 December, 1998

Series:

Variorum Collected Studies CS 636

Pages:

304

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An illustration of the interconnections between science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period, focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. The book examines scientific research and the religious and political circumstances that favoured it.

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This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of the work is devoted to one key university- that of Cambridge- and examines the major issues of the institutional setting of Newton's work, the religious and political circumstances that favoured its dissemination, and the way in which it was dealt with in the curriculum. But the author also seeks to place the problem of the role of science in the early modern university in a larger, European context. To do so, he includes a close prosopographical analysis of the scientific community from the mid-15th TO the end of the 18th century, and discusses the complex relations between the universities and the Enlightenment.

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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