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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"natural philosophers"”.
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Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Eighteenth-Century Satires of Science and Social Innovation
… about it. Why then are there so many farcical natural philosophers in eighteenth century literature and so few respectable ones? I argue that the satirical virtuoso served as a focal point for new forms of social conflict. His zeal for scientific innovation registered broader, often …
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Aliens and atheists: The Plurality of Worlds and Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England.
… of plurality as presented by English natural philosophers and theologians, and in so doing reveals much about England in the seventeenth century. As natural philosophers incorporated plurality within the larger framework of natural theology, it became a weapon of science and reason to …
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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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English music theory c.1590-c.1690 : the modal systems, changing concepts, and the development of new classification systems
… In England, in particular the growing circle of natural philosophers and the Royal Society of London seem to play an important role by asking inquisitive questions. Seeing the octave as a circle (and hence also the Gamut), together with a stronger emphasis on the bass as the fundamental part of a …
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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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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 Clock and the Hand: Taking the Pulse in English Medicine, 1650-1710
… it traces how the pulse was explained against natural philosophers’ conception of the clocklike human body, how it was expressed under various medical practitioners’ fingers, and how it was manipulated according to lay people’s repertoire of cure concerning the wrist. In doing so, this thesis …
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Secrets of the arts : Enlightenment Spain's contested Islamic craft heritage
… the Enlightenment, Spanish artists, architects, natural philosophers, and policymakers struggled to come to terms with two challenging factors: their inheritance from the peninsula's Islamic past, and their corresponding isolation from the institutions of Northern Europe. They were forced to …
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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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Physical conclusions? An exploration of [dis]continuities in Thomas Vaughan’s [Al]Chemical tracts.
… evidence indicates the importance of the Polish natural philosopher Sendivogius ( 1566-1646) to Vaughan’s epistemology. Similarly archival material found at the Hartlib Papers Project [Sheffield University] indicates that Vaughan may have undertaken experiments following the influence o f …
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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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Alchemists, Epics, and Heroes: The Rhetorical Construction of the Seventeenth Century Experimental Philosopher
… rhetorical construction of seventeenth century natural philosophy and natural philosophers in a literary context. I offer as the heart of my study an original interpretation of Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society as a prose epic. The way in which Sprat incorporates epic tropes such as …
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The Signatures of Plants in Early Modern Europe, 1580-1720
… to address society’s material needs and advance natural knowledge in the seventeenth century. Early modern actors, from eminent experimental philosophers to anonymous practitioners, used plant signatures to teach students, collect local remedies, provide cultivation advice, and organise herbal …
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Jacques Rohault and the natural sciences
… career of Jacques Rohault and his work in the natural sciences. More specifically, I have attempted to identify the sources of inspiration of his Traité de Physique. Most historians of science have paid little more than casual homage to Rohault's work as a synthesiser and propagandist of …
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Selling Science in the Colonial American Newspaper: How the Middle Colonial American General Periodical Represented Nature, Philosophy, Medicine, and Technology, 1728 - 1765
… to matters of health, invention and the natural world. The focus is on the mid-Atlantic region of colonial American newspapers including all the extant issues of the Pennsylvania Gazette, Maryland Gazette, Virginia Gazette, and American Weekly Mercury between the years 1728 to 1765. This …
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A history of Ohm's Law: Investigating the flow of electrical ideas through the instruments of their production
… designed and used, we can see the influence of natural philosophers including Coulomb, Ørsted, Seebeck, Ampère and others, while looking at Ohm’s mathematical treatise reveals the strong influence of Fourier. Perhaps most notable from Ohm’s work in this period is how readily he changed his …