John Wilkins (1614-1672) : : new essays / / edited by William Poole.
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 w...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017] |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (301 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter / William Poole
- The Young John Wilkins and the Debate over Copernicanism / Mordechai Feingold
- Wilkins at Wadham / C.S.L. Davies
- Wilkins in Cambridge / Richard Serjeantson
- Wilkins and Latitudinarianism / Jon Parkin
- Taking the Moon Seriously: John Wilkins’s Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638) and Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet (1640) / Felicity Henderson
- Mathematicall Magick (1648) and the Mechanics of Discovery / Natalie Kaoukji
- The Same Principle of Reason: John Wilkins and Language / Rhodri Lewis
- John Wilkins and the Gardens of Wadham College / Scott Mandelbrote
- Chymical Teaching in Early Modern Oxford: From Wilkins to Whiteside / Anna Marie Roos
- Wadham College Library: The First Century / William Poole
- Index / William Poole.