Rethinking Stevin, Stevin Rethinking Constructions of a Dutch Polymath.

Rethinking Stevin, Stevin Rethinking Constructions of a Dutch Polymath.

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Main Author: Davids, C. A.
Other Authors: Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan, Stamhuis, Ida H., Vermij, Rienk H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Series:Nuncius Ser.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
Mathematics
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Table of Contents:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction Simon Stevin, Polymaths and Polymathy in the Early Modern Period
  • 1 Simon Stevin: a Brief Life
  • 2 Polymaths and Polymathy: a Conceptual Survey
  • 3 Polymaths and Polymathy in Comparative Perspective
  • 4 Stevin Thinking: Searching for Keys in the Consten
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 1 The Engineer and the Philosopher: Reflections on the Culture and Economy of Mechanics in Court Society
  • 1 The Codification of an Aristocratic Discipline
  • 2 Benedetti's Physico-Mathematics: a Courtly Path to Science
  • 3 The Socio-Economic and Political Terrain of Court Science: the Case of Benedetti
  • 4 Concluding Remarks
  • Acknowledgment
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 2 Vitruvian Universalism: On the Order of Mechanical Knowledge in the Works of Joseph Furttenbach the Elder (1591-1667)
  • 1 Peregrinatio Mechanica and Militaris
  • 2 Self-Fashioning: the Locality and Universality of Knowledge
  • 3 Armory and the Cabinet of Curiosity
  • 4 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 3 The Swedish Archimedes: The Formation of the Polymath Christopher Polhem
  • 1 Introduction: Polhem's Headache
  • 2 The Swedish Archimedes
  • 3 Mechanical Education
  • 4 Mechanical Perception
  • 5 Mechanical Communication
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 4 Stevin's Physical Geography The World as a Chemical Furnace
  • 1 General Principles
  • 2 The Constitution of the Earth
  • 3 Experience and Chemistry
  • 4 Mechanical Chemistry
  • 5 Stevin and the Mechanization of Nature
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 5 The Art of Demonstration in the Work of Simon Stevin: Linguistic and Mathematical Innovation
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Cultural and Social Context
  • 3 Structure and Content
  • 3.1 Method and Organization
  • 4 Common Sense, Common Language and Mathematics
  • 4.1 The Certainty of Mathematics
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 6 Causality and the Reduction to Art of Simon Stevin's Mechanics
  • 1 Bringing Mechanics to the Form of Art
  • 2 Delineating a Field
  • 3 Demonstrating the Law of the Lever and the Law of the Inclined Plane16
  • 4 Disclosing the Causes of the Properties of the Balance
  • 5 Formal Causality and the Arts
  • 6 Coordinating Theory and Practice, Cause and Effect
  • 7 Conclusion: 'This Long-Hidden Matter'
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 7 The Wise Origins of the Consten: Stevin and Sixteenth-Century Debates on Arts, Mathematics and Language
  • 1 The 'Wijsentijt' in Stevin's Oeuvre
  • 2 Stevin's Program for the Consten
  • 3 A Grammar of the Arts
  • 4 Blending Theory and Praxis
  • 5 Stevin and Ramus
  • 6 Stevin's Persona
  • Bibliography

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