| Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800 Contributor(s): Gascoigne, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0860787672 ISBN-13: 9780860787679 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $45.53 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - History |
| Dewey: 378.4 |
| LCCN: 98042863 |
| Series: Variorum Collected Studies |
| Physical Information: (1.16 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
