Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 8
4. Colour illustrations 10
5. A Note on Abbreviations 12
6. Preface 13
7. 1 Introduction 15
8. Part I. Assessing Beeckman
9. 2 Isaac Beeckman in the Context of the Scientific Revolution 31
10. 3 Isaac Beeckman at Gresham College in 1668 51
11. 4 Framing Beeckman 63
12. Part II. Understanding Beeckman
13. 5 ‘Like Water, That Is Forced to Flow through a Narrow Opening’ 83
14. 6 Optics, Astronomy, and Natural Philosophy 129
15. 7 Combining Atomism with Galenic Medicine 157
16. 8 Physician, Patient, Experimenter and Observer 181
17. 9 Beeckman, Descartes, and the Principle of Conservation of Motion 201
18. 10 Beeckman’s Corpuscular Study of Plants 239
19. Part III. Situating Beeckman
20. 11 Networks of Knowledge in Middelburg around 1600 261
21. 12 Musical Culture in Middelburg in the Times of Isaac Beeckman 317
22. 13 Consten-Culture 339
23. 14 Harnessing the Elements 369
24. 15 ‘Communicated Only to Good Friends and Philosophers’ 393
25. 16 What’s in a Language? 415
26. 17 ‘Ut patet in figura’ 451
27. 18 Concluding Remarks 471
28. Acknowledgements 477
29. Index 479