A BRIEF, BUT ERUDITE EXAMINATION OF THE RENAISSANCE ARTES HISTORICAE: GRAFTON’S WHAT WAS HISTORY? Anthony Grafton, What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-521-69714-9, pp. ix +319James A.T. LANCASTER* It is hard not to agree with Grafton’s concluding remarks; that What Was History? offers a […]
Category: Vol. 5 no. 2
Vol. 5 no. 2
The beginning of the scientific revolution in Early Modern Europe
THE BEGINNING OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Re-Inventing Utopia: Science, Politics and Religion in Early Modern Europe, Studii de Stiinta si Cultura, Year VI 4 (23) 2010, “Vasile Goldis” University Press, ISSN 1841-1401 (print), ISSN 2067-5135 (online), pp 192Stancuta Ramona DIMA-LAZA* Under the broad theme of utopia, the special issue of Studii […]
The philosophical Newton
THE PHILOSOPHICAL NEWTON Andrew Janiak, Newton as Philosopher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008),ISBN 13 978-0-521-86286-8 (hardback), ISBN 13 978-0-511-41404-6 (eBook), pp. 196 Grigore VIDA* When Newton is referring to his works, he usually speaks about “my Philosophy.” The reader who opens the third edition of the Principia is announced on the first page that he […]
Modern disciplines and the transforming reception of a text
MODERN DISCIPLINES AND THE TRANSFORMING RECEPTION OF A TEXT Aude Doody, Pliny’s Ecyclopedia. The reception of Natural philosophy (New York:Cambridge University Press, 2010), ISBN-13-978-0-521-49103-7, pp. VIII+194Doina-Cristina RUSU* Since its appearance in the first century A.D., Pliny’s Natural History has been not only widely read, but also often used in the process of producing knowledge. The […]
Religion, politics and society in Early Modern Transylvania
RELIGION, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN TRANSYLVANIA István Keul, Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe. Ethnic Diversity,Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania (1526-1691) (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009), ISBN 978 90 04 17652 2, pp. 337Cristian BENTE* The Reformation probably represents one of the most thoroughly investigated phenomenon in the […]