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Scholarly environments : centres of learning and institutional contexts, 1560-1960

Title
Scholarly environments : centres of learning and institutional contexts, 1560-1960 / edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald and Arend H. Huussen.
Publication
Leuven [Belgium] ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • MacDonald, A. A. (Alasdair A.)
  • Huussen, A. H., Jr., 1941-
Description
xi, 227 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
"The papers in the present volume, Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1560-1960, written by scholars in such disciplines as science, education and cultural history, treat various matters concerning scholarship in the period from the Renaissance until the mid twentieth century."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Groningen studies in cultural change ; v. 7
Uniform Title
Groningen studies in cultural change ; v. 7.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1560-1960
  • Education > History > Congresses
  • Education > Historiography > Congresses
  • Learning and scholarship > History > Congresses
  • Learned institutions and societies > History > Congresses
  • Civilization, Modern > Congresses
  • Civilization, Modern
  • Education
  • Education > Historiography
  • Learned institutions and societies
  • Learning and scholarship
  • Bildung
  • Bildungseinrichtung
  • Wetenschapsbeoefening
  • Instellingen
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-217) and index.
Contents
The paradigm shift to beat all paradigm shifts / H. Floris Cohen -- Pre-figurations of the future? : the views on the boundaries of church and state of William of Orange and Viglius van Aytta (1565-1566) / Folkert Postma -- Practising continuity : the Academy at Groningen, 1595-1625 / Arjo Vanderjagt -- Changing conceptions of conception in English popular science, c.1450-c.1650 / Juris G. Lidaka -- Francis Bacon's The advancement of learning : an early modern programme for the revision of the systems of disciplines / Jürgen Klein -- Hinc Gothus exorti, nos quoque Belga sumus : a Gothic imaginary in a Dutch perspective / Kees Dekker -- Rewriting science : Anne Conway and Margaret Cavendish / Marguérite Corporaal -- Where centres of knowledge and learning and centres of culture meet : the Amsterdam Athenaeum and the Municipl Theatre / Dirk van Miert -- What is the history of literature? / Stefan Hoesel-Uhlig -- The appropriation of Descartes in nineteenth-century philosophy / Casper Zijlstra -- The position of Dutch and American women in early twentieth-century educational science : different roots but similar outcomes / Annemieke van Drenth and Mieke van Essen -- A year at the Center : experiences and effects of the first international group of fellows at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, ca. 1954-1955 / Tity de Vries -- The dictator's secret archives : rationales for their creation, destruction, and disclosure / Antoon De Baets.
ISBN
  • 9042914114
  • 9789042914117
LCCN
2003064753
OCLC
  • ocm53476670
  • 53476670
  • SCSB-1343485
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library