Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

ISBN 9789069843391

Uitgever Amsterdam : KNAW, 2002. Hardcover. xviii,464 pp. ills. German text. (History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands volume 2). Conditie: nieuw

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Extra informatie - Experimental natural philosophy played a crucial role for the institutionalisation of the new sciences in the second half of the seventeenth century. Its central instrument the air-pump became an emblem of the changed world view. In this study Gerhard Wiesenfeldt follows the history of the disciplineand its instrument at Leiden University. Introduced in a periodof grave political, economic and intellectual crisis, the experimentswith the air-pump and the Theatrum physicum quickly became an integral part of university life.