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Newton and the Netherlands
Eric Jorink
Science & Math
Newton and the Netherlands
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In the course of the eighteenth century, Newton's ideas (in different guises and interpretations) became a veritable hype in Dutch society. In Newton & the Netherlands Newton's sudden success is analyzed in great depth and put into a new perspective.

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9789087281373_TEXT_HR_DRUK
Contents
Introduction
‘The Miracle of Our Time’ How Isaac Newton was fashioned in the Netherlands
Servant of Two Masters Fatio de Duillier between Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton
How Newtonian Was Herman Boerhaave?
The Man Who Erased Himself Willem Jacob ’s Gravesande and the Enlightenment
‘The Wisest Man to Whom this Earth Has as Yet Given Birth’ Petrus van Musschenbroek and the limits of Newtonian natural philosophy
Low Country Opticks optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch ‘Newtonianism’
Defining the Supernatural Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature
Anti-Newtonianism and Radical Enlightenment
Newtonianism at the Dutch Universitie sduring the Enlightenment teaching of ‘philosophy’ from ’s Gravesande to Van Swinden
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