The early enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1750 : : selected papers of a conference, held at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel 22-23 March 2001 / / edited by Wiep van Bunge.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 120
• TeilnehmendeR: Bunge, Wiep van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2003.; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 120.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

This book contains twelve essays by prominent historians from the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States on the early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic. In the wake of the increased awareness of the importance of this particular period for the European Enlightenment as a whole, they focus on C...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Wiep van Bunge
• Introduction: The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1750 / Wiep van Bunge
• Academic Careers and Scholarly Networks / Hans de Waardt
• The Religious Context of the Early Dutch Enlightenment: Moral Religion and Society / Ernestine van der Wall
• Adriaan Koerbagh: Biblical Criiticism and Enlightenment / Michiel Wielema
• 'Outside God, there is Nothing': Swammerdam, Spinoza, and the Janus-Face of the Early Dutch Enlightenment / Eric Jorink
• The Shipwreck of Belief and Eternal Bliss: Philosophy and Religion in Later Dutch Cartesianism / Han van Ruler
• The Empiricist Logic of Ideas of Jean Le Clerc / Paul Schuurman
• Comets in the Early Dutch Enlightenment / Andrew Fix
• Medicine and Philosophy in Leiden around 1700: Continuity or Rupture? / Henri Krop
• The Culture of Mathematics in the Early Dutch Enlightenment / Geert Vanpaemel
• The Early Dutch Enlightenment as a Factor in the Wider European Enlightenment / Jonathan Israel
• The Construction of Silence: Religious and Political Radicalism in Dutch History / Wijnand Mijnhardt
• Index of Names / Wiep van Bunge.