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Scientific Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2017

Charles B. Schmitt*
Affiliation:
The Warburg Institute

Abstract

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Copyright © 1975 by New York University 

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References

Notes

1. Hall, A. R., “Sir Isaac Newton's Notebook, 1661–1665”, Cambridge Historical Journal, 9 (1948): 239–50.Google Scholar

2. [Waterland, Daniel], Advice to a Young student with a Method of Study for the First Four Years (London, 1730).Google Scholar

3. Ruestow, E. G., Physics at 17th and 18th Century Leiden (The Hague, 1973).Google Scholar

4. See the material collected in Risse, W., Die Logik der Neuzeit (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1964f.).Google Scholar

5. Schmitt, C. B., “Towards a Reassessment of Renaissance Aristotelianism”, History of Science, 11(1973): 159–93 and “Philosophy and Science in Sixteenth-Century Universities: Some Preliminary Comments”, in Murdoch, J. E. & Sylla, E. D. (eds.), The Cultural Context of Medieval Learning (Dordrecht, 1975), pp. 585–537.Google Scholar

6. Especially I filosofi e le macchine (Milan, 1962), translated as Philosophy, Technology and the Arts in the Early Modern Era (New York, 1970).Google Scholar

7. It was given due emphasis, however, by Boas, George, “Recent Books in the History of Philosophy”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 19(1958): 571–92, esp. 584–7.Google Scholar

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10. Another example of the same sort is Yates, Frances A., Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Chicago, 1964), which adds an important dimension to the interpretation of Bruno.Google Scholar

11. For one example see Walker, D. P., “Francis Bacon and Spiritus ”, in Science, Medicine and Society in the Renaissance: Essays to Honor Walter Pagel (New York, 1972), II, pp. 121–30.Google Scholar

12. For further details on this see Debus, A. G., Science and Education in the Seventeenth Century (London-New York, 1970).Google Scholar

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14. For details see the review by McConica, J. K. in English Historical Review 87 (1972): 121–5.Google Scholar

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16. See the work of Ruestow cited above in note 3 and the works of Sassen cited in Schmitt, “Towards a Reassessment…” (note 5), n. 18.Google Scholar