Newton and the Netherlands: How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic
ISBN: 9789400600553
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Leiden University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: History of Science and Technology;

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. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

Ad Maas is curator at the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, the Netherlands. Eric Jorink is researcher at the Huygens Institute for Netherlands History (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences). He is the author of Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 (Leiden 2010).

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