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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Natural philosophy"”.
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Natural Philosophy and Theology in Seventeenth-Century England
… explores the disciplinary relationship between natural philosophy (the study of nature or body) and theology (the study of the divine) in seventeenth-century England. Early modern disciplines had two essential functions. First, they set the rules and boundaries of argument – knowledge was …
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Natural theology and natural philosophy in the late Renaissance
… understand the religious context of early modern natural philosophy. Despite some great strides in relating certain areas of Christian doctrine to the study of the natural world, the category ‘natural theology’ has often been subject to anachronism and misunderstanding. The term itself is …
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Teaching natural philosophy and mathematics at Oxford and Cambridge 1500-1570
The syllabus in natural philosophy and mathematics was radically changed in the course of the sixteenth century with new subjects, textbooks and methods introduced. Education became more practical and less dependent on medieval antecedents. Printing technology improved textbooks and made it …
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Science and Natural Philosophy in the Poetry of Heinrich von Meissen (Frauenlob)
… their role in the incorporation of contemporary natural philosophical information into these poems. Rhetorical devices like synecdoche, enjambment, concatenation, ekphrasis, and personification are used repeated and strategically in the leichs as didactic tools and hermeneutic guides, enabling …
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Theology and natural philosophy in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Britain
… and political ideology underpinned by Newtonian natural philosophy. However, by examining in detail the texts of Richard Bentley, John Harris and Samuel Clarke, this thesis argues that their Sermons should not be characterised as 'Newtonian'. These texts were highly complex literary productions …
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The Epistemology of Artefact Comparisons in Early Greek Natural Philosophy and Medicine
… of artefact comparisons in early Greek natural philosophy and medicine. Various thinkers frequently employed the structure and/or functioning of man-made artefacts to improve their understanding of a target domain in which direct observation is hindered or impossible, such as in …
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Robert Boyle and the Significance of Skill and Experience in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
… purpose of this study is to examine how English natural philosophers of the seventeenth centuryin particular, Robert Boyle (1627-1691) considered and assessed the personal traits of skill and experience and the significance of these characteristics to the practice of seventeenth-century science. …
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Time (Chronos) in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy and of Time's Place in Early Naturphilosophie (1750-1800)
In what sense, if any, is time related to nature? In this dissertation, I argue that Aristotle's Treatise on Time (Physics iv 10-14) must be read in light of his foregoing discussion of nature (phusis) in Physics i-iv 9. Thus, Aristotle's definition of time (chronos) in Physics iv 11, that time is …
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No "Idle Fancy:" The Imagination's Work in Poetry and Natural Philosophy from Sidney to Sprat
… Over the course of the seventeenth century, the natural philosophers' material explanations of the natural order were slowly gaining authority over other sources of knowledge, the poets prime among them. My dissertation takes up the competing early modern claims to knowledge that Milton lays down …
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The Sense of Smell in the Renaissance: Natural Philosophy and Medicine in Italy (ca 1450-1600)
… the sense of smell taking place in the fields of natural philosophy and medicine. Two appendixes complete the dissertation. The first one provides a transcription of MS Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, S85 sup., transmitting an Italian vernacular version of Theophrastus’ De odoribus (On odors). The …
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Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England
<p>Although the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish is eclectic and uncustomary, it offers an important critique of contemporary scientific methods, especially mechanism and experimentalism. As presented in Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and Blazing World, Cavendish's natural …
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The reading of Newton in the early eighteenth century : Tories and Newtonianism
… analysis of the relationship between Newtonian natural philosophy, politics and religion from a Tory High-Church perspective. I argue that historical understanding of the linkages between political/ religious groups and Newtonian natural philosophy in the early eighteenth century can be improved …
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The Problem of Substantial Generation in Aristotle's Physical Writings
… and his attempt to lay the foundations for his natural philosophy. The central question concerns the injunction posed by the Eleatic philosophers to the study of nature on the basis of the principle "ex nihilo nihil" which they formulated into argument against the intelligibility of nature. …
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Francis Bacon's science of magic
… the goal of his inquiry into nature "true natural magic. " It attempts to establish the precise relationships among Bacon's concepts of matter, inquiry and magic in terms of his novel conception of nature. Baconian matter forms the basis of Bacon's substantive natural philosophy; it is …
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Science and the press: nascent institutions in colonial America
… in the years 1729 - 1755 for articles on natural philosophy, naturalism, technics, medicine, and husbandry, among others. I approach several concerns: the role of the Gazette in the 'popularization' and accessibility of science, the image of natural philosophy that was promoted in the …
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