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Natural Knowledge and Aristotelianism at Early Modern Protestant Universities / edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Volkhard Wels

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Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.
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1 online resource (351 pages).
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Omodeo, Pietro Daniel and Wels, Volkhard
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Contents
Preface / Andrew James Johnston and Gyburg Uhlmann -- Introduction / Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Volkhard Wels -- Melanchthon's logic and rhetoric and the methodology of chemical knowledge in Libavius's Alchymia / Volkhard Wels -- Nature as revelation : Philipp Melanchthon's image of nature / Günter Frank -- God in time and space : Socinian physics and its opponents / Sascha Salatowsky -- The Wittenberg reception of Copernicus : At the origin of a scholarly tradition / Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier -- Cosmology and scholarship in seventeenth-century Helmstedt : The Baltic mathematician and scientific mediator Nicolaus Andreae Granius (c. 1569-1631) / Stefano Gulizia -- Attacks on judicial astrology, religious dissent and the rise of skepticism / Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer -- Celestial phenomena in early modernity : The integrated image of comets / Anna Jerratsch -- Bartholomaeus Keckermann and Christoph Hunichius on novas and comets at the beginning of the 17th century : Two opposing views on the relation between natural philosophy and mathematics / Miguel Ángel Granada -- Defending Aristotle, constructing Chymia : Libavius, logic, and the German schools / Bruce T. Moran -- Reforming the Prisca Medicina : Libavius' axioms of elements and mixture / Elisabeth Moreau -- Johann Ludwig Hannemann (1640-1724) and the defence of paracelsism in Kiel / Bernd Roling -- Knowledge, community and authority at the Academia Naturae Curiosorum / Simon Rebohm -- The reconfiguration of Natura and Ars in Cartesian rhetoric and the epistemological reflections in the prize questions of the French academies / Martin Urmann.
Summary
"This volume aims to shed new light on the ways in which science was institutionalized and the central role played by university culture at reformed universities in the early modern period. It particularly explores the relationship between the Aristotelian legacy in Protestant centers of learning and the new natural knowledge which emerged from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. Within the university context, Aristotelianism proved to be a dynamic tradition which we would term a "mobile episteme" in line with the research program of the Collaborative Research Centre Episteme in Motion and the ERC endeavor EarlyModernCosmology (Horizon 2020, GA 725883). The transformation of academic science depended on its circulation in institutional and intellectual networks. The transfer and exchange of knowledge always implied its reformulation and often its deep alteration as well, even in those cases in which the explicit intention of the historical actors was to preserve and secure a received canon of knowledge, such as the corpus Aristotelicum or the Scholastic style of thought. As a matter of fact, the cross-pollination between "early" forms of knowledge and "modern" perspectives produced changes of content, theory, and experience. The fields that underwent major hybridizations and shifts range from astronomy to astrology, medicine, theories of the soul, alchemy, physics, and biology. Because methodologies were revised throughout this process, later instantiations of method, including rhetoric, epistemology, and theories of argumentation must be reevaluated within the terms of this transformative episteme."--taken from back cover.
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9783447198905
3447198907
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