Book Description
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 : 40,94 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 : 30,59 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Mark Greengrass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,57 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 : 28,68 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Educators
ISBN :
Author : Paul Monroe
Publisher :
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,52 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.
Author : Martin M. Tweedale
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1772126586
In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology in the West energized an economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic rulers, analyzing how respect for custom and tradition gave way to the dominance of top-down rational planning and organization. Then in response came a highly attractive myth of an eventual future rid of all of humankind's ills, one in which life would be “made wonderful.” Originating in Zoroastrianism and, through Jewish apocalyptic works, flowing into early Christianity, this myth produced utopian beliefs that set the West apart from the other civilizations. Tweedale shows how these beliefs became popular among Western elites in the early modern period and eventually resulted in the distinctly Western doctrine of progress. This doctrine, an almost religious faith in the capacity of science and technology to improve human life, released economic expansion from traditional constraints and has led to our current environmental emergency. Exploring sources from philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas, Making Wonderful is for all readers who are intellectually curious about the roots of our eco-catastrophe.
Author : Sivert Angel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110600544
This anthology discusses different aspects of Protestantism, past and present. Professor Tarald Rasmussen has written both on medieval and modern theologians, but his primary interest has remained the reformation and 16th century church history. In stead of a traditional «Festschrift» honouring the different fields of research he has contributed to, this will be a focused anthology treating a specific theme related to Rasmussen’s research profile. One of Professor Rasmussen's most recent publications, a little popularized book in Norwegian titled «What is Protestantism?», reveals a central aspect research interest, namely the Weberian interest for Protestantism’s cultural significance. Despite difficulties, he finds the concept useful as a Weberian «Idealtypus» enabling research on a phenomenon combining theological, historical and sociological dimensions. Thus he employs the Protestantism as an integrative concept to trace the makeup of today’s secular societies. This profiled approach is a point of departure for this anthology discussing important aspects of historiography in reformation history: Continuity and breaks surrounding the reformation, contemporary significance of reformation history research, traces of the reformation in today’s society. The book relates to current discussions on Protestantism and is relevant to everyone who want to keep up to date with the latest research in the field.
Author : Stephen Clucas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1040233589
This collection of Stephen Clucas's articles addresses the complex interactions between religion, natural philosophy and magic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. The essays on the Elizabethan mathematician and magus John Dee show that the angelic conversations of John Dee owed a significant debt to medieval magical traditions and how Dee's attempts to communicate with spirits were used to serve specific religious agendas in the mid-seventeenth century. The essays devoted to Giordano Bruno offer a reappraisal of the magical orientation of the Italian philosopher's mnemotechnical and Lullist writings of the 1580s and 90s and show his influence on early seventeenth-century English understandings of memory and intellection. Next come three studies on the atomistic or corpuscularian natural philosophy of the Northumberland and Cavendish circles, arguing that there was a distinct English corpuscularian tradition prior to the Gassendian influence in the 1640s and 50s. Finally, two essays on the seventeenth-century Intelligencer Samuel Hartlib and his correspondents shows how religion alchemy and natural philosophy interacted during the 'Puritan Revolution'.
Author : Frances Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134498365
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.