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This book focuses on Samuel Hartlib and his vision of education towards the natural sciences.
Author : Samuel Hartlib
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1970-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052107715X
This book focuses on Samuel Hartlib and his vision of education towards the natural sciences.
Author : Charles Webster
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Education
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Author : Richard Yeo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 022610673X
In Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. Notebooks were important to several key members of the Royal Society of London, including Robert Boyle, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, John Locke, and others, who drew on Renaissance humanist techniques of excerpting from texts to build storehouses of proverbs, maxims, quotations, and other material in personal notebooks, or commonplace books. Yeo shows that these men appreciated the value of their own notes both as powerful tools for personal recollection, and, following Francis Bacon, as a system of precise record keeping from which they could retrieve large quantities of detailed information for collaboration. The virtuosi of the seventeenth century were also able to reach beyond Bacon and the humanists, drawing inspiration from the ancient Hippocratic medical tradition and its emphasis on the gradual accumulation of information over time. By reflecting on the interaction of memory, notebooks, and other records, Yeo argues, the English virtuosi shaped an ethos of long-term empirical scientific inquiry.
Author : Mark Greengrass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521520119
Samuel Hartlib was a key figure in the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth century. Originally from Elbing, in Prussig, Hartlib settled permanently in England from the late 1620s until his death in 1662. His aspirations formed a distinctive and influential strand in English intellectual life during those revolutionary decades. This volume reflects the variety of the theoretical and practical interests of Hartlib's circle and presents them in their continental context. The editors of the volume are all attached to the Hartlib Papers Project at the University of Sheffield, a major collaborative research effort to exploit the largely untapped resources of the surviving Hartlib manuscripts. In an introduction to the volume they explore the background to the Hartlib circle and provide the context in which the essays should be read.
Author : George Henry Turnbull
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Educators
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Author : Vera Keller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107110130
This study shows that modernity has its origins in the advancement of knowledge, and not in the Scientific Revolution.
Author : John Dury
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 1649
Category : Education
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Author : Paul Monroe
Publisher :
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Education
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Author : Phyllis Mack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521527026
Essays taking up themes that have resonated through Professor Koenigsberger's lectures, seminars and public writings.
Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0191542598
Between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. Aspirations for wholesale reformation were replaced by more specific schemes for improvement. Paul Slack's analysis of this decisive shift of focus, derived from his 1995 Ford Lectures, examines its intellectual and political roots. He describes the policies and rhetoric of the commonwealthsmen, godly magistrates, Stuart monarchs, Interregnum projectors, and early Hanoverian philanthropists, and the institutions — notably hospitals and workhouses - which they created or reformed. In a series of thematic chapters, each linked to a chronological period, he brings together what might seem to have been disparate notions and activities, and shows that they expressed a sequence of coherent approaches towards public welfare. The result is a strikingly original study, which throws fresh light on the formation of civic consciousness and the emergence of a civil society in early modern England.