John Wilkins (1614-1672): New Essays

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34808-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

John Wilkins (1614-72): New Essays presents ten fresh essays on the life and work of the influential English natural philosopher and theologian, John Wilkins. Wilkins, one of the most prominent figures in the scientific revolution in England, and a founder of the Royal Society of London, published widely on astronomy, mechanics, language, and theology, and was also an important churchman and politician. These ten essays review Wilkins’s writings and influence, while also addressing the wider contexts of his activities, including his service as head of house at two successive colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, and his political work. This new collection thus covers all aspects of Wilkins’s career, and functions as a complete reappraisal of this seminal early modern figure.

Contributors are: C. S. L. Davies, Mordechai Feingold, Felicity Henderson, Natalie Kaoukji, Rhodri Lewis, Scott Mandelbrote, Jon Parkin, William Poole, Anna Marie Roos, and Richard Serjeantson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poole, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

Contexts

1 The Young John Wilkins and the Debate over Copernicanism
Mordechai Feingold

Life

2 Wilkins at Wadham
C.S.L. Davies

3 Wilkins in Cambridge
Richard Serjeantson

4 Wilkins and Latitudinarianism
Jon Parkin

Works

5 Taking the Moon Seriously: John Wilkins’s Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638) and Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet (1640)
Felicity Henderson

6 Mathematicall Magick (1648) and the Mechanics of Discovery
Natalie Kaoukji

7 The Same Principle of Reason: John Wilkins and Language
Rhodri Lewis

8 John Wilkins and the Gardens of Wadham College
Scott Mandelbrote

After Wilkins

9 Chymical Teaching in Early Modern Oxford: From Wilkins to Whiteside
Anna Marie Roos

Books

Appendix. Wadham College Library: The First Century
William Poole

Index

Über Autor(innen)

William Poole (D.Phil., Oxford, 2001) is Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, Oxford. He has published on many bibliographical and historical topics in early modern Britain, including the history of science.