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Book SynopsisThis issue of History of Universities XXXIII/2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.
Table of ContentsAndrea Sangiacomo: Introduction: Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Academic Millieu 1: Roger Ariew: Fromondus verus Galileo on Comets 2: Stefan Heßbrüg gen-Walter: Institutioni scholasticae minime accommodata: de Neufville and Clauberg on Not Teaching Bacon 3: Nabeel Hamid: Domesticating Descartes, Renovating Scholasticism: Johann Clauberg and the German Reception of Cartesianism 4: Helen Hattab: Methods of Teaching or Discovery? Analysis and Synthesis from Zabarella to Spinoza 5: Michael Jaworzyn: Caspar Langenhert's Parisian 'School of Egoists' and the Reception of Geulincx' Physics, from Occasionalism to Solopsism 6: Pieter Present: 'Following no party but the truth': Petrus van Musschenbroek's rhetorical defence of '(Newtonian) experimental philosophy' 7: Christian Leduc: Speculative Philosophy at the Berlin Academy 8: Andrea Sangiacomo: The Normalization of Natural Philosophy: Occasional causality and Coarse-Grained Reality
