The Land of Stevin and Huygens: A Sketch of Science and Technology in the Dutch Republic During the Golden CenturySpringer Science & Business Media, 1981 - 162 pagina's Translation of: Het land van Stevin en Huygens. With corrections and additional material. |
Inhoudsopgave
The Young Republic | 1 |
Ancient Science | 6 |
The Period of Transition | 18 |
The Dutch Teachers of Mathematics and Navigation | 32 |
Simon Stevin | 52 |
The New Science | 61 |
Descartes | 77 |
Christiaan Huygens | 89 |
The Living World | 102 |
Colonial Science | 123 |
Into the Age of Boerhaave | 132 |
Notes | 136 |
Bibliography | 147 |
Index | 152 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
admiration already Amsterdam animals Archimedes Aristotelian Aristotle astronomical Barendsz became Beeckman botany Calvinist Cartesian cartographers celestial Christiaan Huygens circle clocks Clusius Copernican Copernicus Counter-Remonstrant countries decimal Delft Descartes Deventer discovery Dutch earth edition English Enkhuizen Europe existed famous Frans van Schooten French Frisia Galen Galileo geometry Golden Century Graaf Haarlem Hague Holland Hudde Huygens ideas India Jan De Witt Jan Swammerdam known Labadists later Latin Leeghwater Leeuwenhoek Leiden longitude maps mathematicians mathematics Maurice mechanics medicine Mercator merchants method microscopes Middelburg Museum Boerhaave nature navigation Newton Northern Netherlands patrician period philosopher physician Pietersz Plancius Prince professor Ptolemy published pupil Regent Republic Rumphius Ruysch Schooten scientific scientists seventeenth century Simon Stevin Snellius so-called Southern Netherlands Spanish Spinoza Stevin Swammerdam Sylvius teacher theory tion translation Tulp University Utrecht Vesalius Willebrord Snellius Willem William the Silent Witt Zeeland