Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800

Name: Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800
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By: John Gascoigne

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Hardcover | 28 January 1999 | Edition Number 1

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304 Pages

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This volume illustrates the interconnections between 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 a close examination of 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. 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 until the end of the 18th century, and discusses the complex relations between the universities and the Enlightenment.

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'Gascoigne combines formidable erudition with a very readable prose style, using well-chosen quotations from contemporary sources to point up his incisive analytical judgements.' Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 36(3).282-283 'These studies deserve re-publication as a collection... they provide a penetrating view of the interplay of intellectual and political currents in the universities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.' The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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