John Wilkins (1614-1672): New Essays

John Wilkins (1614-1672): New Essays
Author: William Poole
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2017-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004348093

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.

The Discovery of a World in the Moone

The Discovery of a World in the Moone
Author: John Wilkins
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732658988

Reproduction of the original: The Discovery of a World in the Moone by John Wilkins

John Wilkins 1614-1672

John Wilkins 1614-1672
Author: Barbara J. Shapiro
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520370562

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Manipulating the Sun

Manipulating the Sun
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9004677658

This volume puts two biblical miracles - the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahaz) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 -, in the early modern period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Copernican arguments (in text and image), their reception, their treatment in the mathematical sciences, and their various cultural layers, with a focus on the history of art and the history of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The material discussed spreads from rather prosaic mathematical reflections to highly appealing visual representations of the two miracles.

John Wilkins and 17th-century British Linguistics

John Wilkins and 17th-century British Linguistics
Author: Joseph L. Subbiondo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 391
Release: 1992
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9027245541

In this reader, 19 articles have been collected that bring out the central position of John Wilkins and his Essay Toward a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) in the history of ideas in 17th-century Britain.

Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar

Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar
Author: Anna Marie Roos
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 303109722X

This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's scholarship has had on a range of fields and address several topics, including: the dynamic pedagogical techniques employed in early modern universities, networks of communication through which scientific knowledge was shared, experimental techniques and knowledge production, the life and times of Isaac Newton, Newton's reception, and the scientific culture of the Royal Society. Modeling the interdisciplinary approaches championed by Feingold as well as the essential role of archival studies, the volume attests to the enduring value of his scholarship and sets a benchmark for future work in the history of science and its allied fields.