KANT’S ILLUMINATING EXPERIMENT: ON THE PLACEMENT, PURPOSE AND ESSENTIAL PROCEDURE OF THE EXPERIMENT OF PURE REASON IN THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON Brett FULKERSON-SMITH Abstract. In his Preface to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, and many of his lectures on logic, Kant discusses and lauds the efforts of Francis Bacon to […]
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Husbanding creation and the technology of amelioration in the works of Gabriel Plattes
HUSBANDING CREATION AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF AMELIORATION IN THE WORKS OF GABRIEL PLATTES Oana MATEI Abstract. In this paper I will try to investigate some of the ways in which husbandry, a recurrent topic in Gabriel Plattes’ works, was considered to be the recipe for bringing salvation in religious and economic manner. I will argue […]
Travel literature, the new world, and locke on species
TRAVEL LITERATURE, THE NEW WORLD, AND LOCKE ON SPECIES Patrick J. CONNOLLY Abstract. This paper examines the way in which Locke’s deep and longstanding interest in the non-European world contributed to his views on species and their classification. The evidence for Locke’s curiosity about the non-European world, especially his fascination with seventeenth-century travel literature, is […]
Material objects and circulation of knowledge in early modern low countries
MATERIAL OBJECTS AND CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN LOW COUNTRIES Mihnea DOBRE Sven Dupré and Christoph Lüthy (eds.), Silent Messengers. The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2011) Series: Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge, vol. 1, ISBN 978-3-8258-1635-3, pp. ii+387 This volume is […]
Philosophy – the medicine for body and mind
PHILOSOPHY – THE MEDICINE FOR BODY AND MIND Sandra DRAGOMIR Francis Bacon and the Medicine of the Mind Late Renaissance Context, Perspectives on Science, Volume 20, Issue 2-Summer 2012, MIT, ISSN 1063-6145, E-ISSN 1530-9274, pp. 144 Sandra DRAGOMIR* The edition of this summer’s number of Perspectives on Science is dedicated to a close-up of a […]
The medicine of the soul and the baconian legacy in early modern context
THE MEDICINE OF THE SOUL AND THE BACONIAN LEGACY IN EARLY MODERN CONTEXT Bogdan DEZNAN Sorana Corneanu, Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011), ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11639-6, pp. VII+301 Bogdan DEZNAN Recent years have witnessed an increase in the number of scholarly works […]
Between Renaissance and Modernity: Bacon’s Advancement Of Learning
BETWEEN RENAISSANCE AND MODERNITY: BACON’S ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING Robert Arnăutu Cele două cărţi ale lui Francis Bacon despre excelenţa şi progresul cunoaşterii divine şi umane, traducere, note şi comentarii Dana Jalobeanu şi Grigore Vida, studiu introductiv de Dana Jalobeanu (Bucureşti: Editura Humanitas, colecţia „Paradigme“, 2012) ISBN 978-973-50-3744-4, pp.502 The Two Bookes of Francis Bacon […]
Introduction
Since science played such a major role in the secularization process and the “disenchantment of the world,” it was largely inevitable that the relationship between religion (broadly speaking) and science was to be understood in terms of “warfare.” Everyone knew from the beginning, however, who the winner was and which was the “good” side. Under […]
Regional Natural History in England: Physico-Theology and the Exploration of Nature
REGIONAL NATURAL HISTORY IN ENGLAND: PHYSICOTHEOLOGY AND THE EXPLORATION OF NATUREDavid BECK Abstract. First the article offers a contextual discussion of more widespread Latitudinarian views of nature and the relationship between the landscape and God. Secondly, it argues that the regional natural history should be seen as a contribution to debates regarding physicotheological belief, through […]
From Causes to Relations: The Emergence of a Non-Aristotelian Concept of Geometrical Proof out of the Quaestio De Certitudine Mathematicarum
FROM CAUSES TO RELATIONS: THE EMERGENCE OF A NON-ARISTOTELIAN CONCEPT OF GEOMETRICAL PROOF OUT OF THE QUAESTIO DE CERTITUDINE MATHEMATICARUMTobias SCHÖTTLER Abstract. Insofar as many Renaissance thinkers regard Aristotelian philosophy of science as the framework for their understanding of mathematics and its proofs, they consider geometrical proofs as syllogisms using causes.Furthermore, they identify geometrical proofs […]