The English Virtuoso in the Seventeenth Century
Author : Walter Edwards Houghton
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File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : Walter Edwards Houghton
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : Craig A. Hanson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226315878
This study aims to overturn 20th-century criticism that cast the English virtuosi of the 17th and early 18th centuries as misguided dabblers, arguing that they were erudite individuals with solid grounding in the classics, deep appreciation for the arts and sincere curiosity about the natural world.
Author : Randall L.-W. Caudhill
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Education
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Author : Randall L.-W. Caudhill
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Page : 792 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Education
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Author : Richard Grassby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2002-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521890861
A comprehensive study of the business community in a pre-industrial economy.
Author : Anna K. Nardo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791407219
This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts of the period enact this mediation.
Author : Richard Yeo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 28,36 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 : Therese O'Malley
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780884022404
John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a pivotal figure in 17th-century intellectual life in England. The contributors approach him and his work from diverse disciplines: architectural and intellectual history and histories of science, agriculture, gardens, and literature. They present the "Elysium Britannicum" as a central document of late European humanism.
Author : John Gascoigne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521542111
A biography of scientific thinker Joseph Banks, placing his work in the context of eighteenth-century Britain.
Author : Al Coppola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0190269715
The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science. It analyzes eighteenth-century theatrical representations of science in order to demonstrate how experimental natural philosophy was itself a kind of performing art that was shaped by a wider culture of spectacle in the Enlightenment.