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Auteur(s) : Lüthy, Christoph (1964-....)
Titre(s) : David Gorlæus (1591-1612) [Texte imprimé] : an enigmatic figure in the history of philosophy and science / Christoph Lüthy
Publication : Amsterdam : Amsterdam university press, cop. 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (225 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Collection : History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands, ISSN 1569-3481 ; vol. 13
Lien à la collection : History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 163-215
"When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two
highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable
impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was
unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century
readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes.
Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even
as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology.
His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent
natural sciences, and theology. The aim of this book is to shed light on Gorlaeus'
family circumstances, his education at Franeker and Leiden, and on the virulent Arminian
crisis which provided the context within which his work was written. It also attempts
to define Gorlaeus' place in the history of Dutch philosophy and to assess the influence
that it exercised in the evolution of philosophy and science, and notably in early
Cartesian circles."--Page 4 of cover
Sujet(s) : Gorlæus, David (1591-1612)
Atomisme
Indice(s) Dewey :
199.492 (23e éd.) = Philosophie occidentale moderne - Pays Bas
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789089644381 (rel.). - ISBN 9789048516810 (erroné). - ISBN 9048516811 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44345499k
Notice n° :
FRBNF44345499
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