Huygens’s Odd Sympathy Recreated Kurt Wiesenfeld Abstract. In 2000, a Georgia Tech research team decided to recreate experiments described by Christiaan Huygens concerning his newly invented pendulum clock. Dormant for 335 years, and resurrected as a historical curiosity, Huygens’s system informs and inspires current research in nonlinear science. Keywords: Christiaan Huygens, pendulum clocks, synchronization, experiments, […]
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Introduction. Galileo, Huygens and the Pendulum Clock: Isochronism and Synchronicity
Introduction. Galileo, Huygens and the Pendulum Clock: Isochronism and Synchronicity Invited editor: Filip Buyse On the 2nd October 2017, the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three researchers who were able to elucidate how the internal, biological clock of living organisms adapts itself so that it is synchronized with the Earth’s […]
Spinoza and the Galilean Heritage
Spinoza and the Galilean Heritage “Galileo and Spinoza”, ed. Filip Buyse, Intellectual History Review, Volume 23, Issue 1 (March 2013), ISSN: 1749-6977 (Print), 1749-6985 (Online), 157 pp. Oberto MARRAMA As suggested by its title, the volume Galileo and Spinoza, special Issue of Intellectual History Review (23/1, March 2013), is entirely devoted to investigating possible points […]
Demeter’s Opticks-Inspired Interpretation of Hume
Demeter’s Opticks-Inspired Interpretation of Hume Tamás Demeter, David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism: Methodology and Ideology in Enlightenment Inquiry (Boston: Brill, 2016), Hardcover ISBN 9789004327313, e-book ISBN 9789004327320, 221 pp. Ramona WINTER In his insightful book, Tamás Demeter places David Hume’s philosophy within the tradition of Scottish Newtonianism. As Demeter notes, commentators generally […]
The Relation between Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and The Early French Cartesians
The Relation between Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and The Early French Cartesians Mihnea Dobre, Descartes and Early French Cartesianism: Between Metaphysics and Physics (Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2017), ISBN: 978-606-697-041-9, 422 pp. Grigore VIDA Descartes and Early French Cartesianism: Between Metaphysics and Physics (“Foundations of Modern Thought” series; Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2017) is Mihnea Dobre’s […]
The Technically Manifolded (Classical and Quantum) Space Ontology
The Technically Manifolded (Classical and Quantum) Space Ontology Edward Slowik, The Deep Metaphysics of Space (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016), ISBN 978-3-319-44867-1, ISBN 978-3-319-44868-8 (online), 356 pp. Adrian MANEA What is generally called ―the problem of space‖ throughout the history and philosophy of physics is chiefly one which takes the main stage in the […]
Career-Building across the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century: A Review of Marie-Christine Skuncke’s “Carl Peter Thunberg: Botanist and Physician”
Career-Building across the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century: A Review of Marie-Christine Skuncke’s “Carl Peter Thunberg: Botanist and Physician” Marie-Christine Skuncke, Carl Peter Thunberg: Botanist and Physician: Career-Building Across the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century (Uppsala: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, 2014), ISBN: 978-91-981948-0-7, 376 pp. Sebestian KROUPA Intellectual convictions and common cultural outlooks of […]
Letters that Made History
Letters that Made History Lisa Jardine, Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture (London: UCL Press, 2015), ISBN: 978-1-910634-09-7, 146 pp. Sabin Dumitru COROIAN Intellectual convictions and common cultural outlooks of contemporary thought have deep roots in a long tradition of English-Dutch relations, started in the seventeenth century Europe. While revisiting the […]
Theological Implications of the Concept of Dominion in Isaac Newton’s Thought
Theological Implications of the Concept of Dominion in Isaac Newton’s Thought Remus Gabriel MANOILĂ Abstract. In this paper I intend to assess the theological implications of the concept of dominion as elaborated by Isaac Newton in his unpublished papers drafted concomitantly with the General Scholium to the Principia Mathematica. My research will focus especially on […]
Descartes on Education: the Cartesian Reformation of the Seventeenth-Century Institutionalized Knowledge
Descartes on Education: the Cartesian Reformation of the Seventeenth-Century Institutionalized Knowledge Sergio GARCIA Abstract. It is well-known that the Cartesian scientific and philosophical project was directed towards instrumental purposes which guided Descartes’ theoretical research, as it is evidenced in the Discourse on the method. The transformation of the educative curriculum can also be considered one […]