Overview
- Sheds light on the relevance of a neglected author in the history of philosophy and science
- Adopts a novel historiographical approach that captures aspects that don't fit into familiar categories
- Features an transcription of an important handwritten source on early modern experimental philosophy
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 51)
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About this book
This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history. Readers will discover an important thinker: Burchard de Volder. He was instrumental in founding the first experimental cabinet at a European University in 1675.
The author goes beyond the familiar image of De Volder as a forerunner of Newtonianism in Continental Europe. He consults neglected materials, including handwritten sources, and takes into account new historiographical categories. His investigation maps the thought of an author who did not sit with an univocal philosophical school, but critically dealt with all the ‘major’ philosophers and scientists of his age: from Descartes to Newton, via Spinoza, Boyle, Huygens, Bernoulli, and Leibniz. It explores the way De Volder’s un-systematic thought used, rejected, and re-shaped their theories and approaches. In addition, the title includes transcriptionsof De Volder's teaching materials: disputations, dictations, and notes.
Insightful analysis combined with a trove of primary source material will help readers gain a new perspective on a thinker so far mostly ignored by scholars. They will find a thoughtful figure who engaged with early modern science and developed a place that fostered experimental philosophy.
Reviews
“Andrea Strazzoni’s new book is really a demanding one … . This book is complex but worthwhile, and represents a very valuable contribution to the history of science. … His book is very rich in primary sources, and the numberless footnotes contain substantial quotations and references to original texts in Latin, French, Dutch and so on. ” (Ferdinando Abbri, Nuncius, Vol. 36, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andrea Strazzoni (1984) has completed his undergraduate education at the University of Parma, and has obtained his PhD in the history of philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (2015), with a dissertation on the Dutch reception of Descartes and the problem of the foundation of natural philosophy. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt, where he works on the ways in which Cartesian ideas were entangled with different scientific and philosophical paradigms.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Burchard de Volder and the Age of the Scientific Revolution
Authors: Andrea Strazzoni
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19878-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19877-0Published: 20 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19880-0Published: 12 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19878-7Published: 18 November 2019
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 734
Number of Illustrations: 130 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Philosophy, History of Science, Philosophy of Science, Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary