Thomas White and the Blackloists by Stefania Tutino

Author:Stefania Tutino [Tutino, Stefania]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781351878982
Google: 4zpBDgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02T16:20:49+00:00

Notes

1 For the intellectual atmosphere of the Oxford circle and for Wilkins’s role in it see B.J. Shapiro, John Wilkins 1614–1672. An Intellectual Biography, Berkeley 1969, pp. 118 and ff.

2 B.J. Shapiro, John Wilkins, p. 228.

3 Among the most representative voices in this debate over the use and definition of the concept of latitudinarianism see J.R. Jacob, Robert Boyle and the English Revolution: A Study in Social and Intellectual Change, New York 1977, pp. 152 and ff.; M.C. Jacob, The Newtonians; B.J. Shapiro, John Wilkins, pp. 153 and ff. passim; Id., Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England, pp. 104–116; J. Spurr, ‘“Latitudinarianism” and the Restoration Church’, The Historical Journal, vol. 31 n. 1 (1988), pp. 61–88; Id., ‘“Rational Religion” in Restoration England’, Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 49 n. 4 (1988), pp. 536–585; M. Hunter, ‘Latitudinarianism and the “Ideology” of the early Royal Society: Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667) reconsidered’, in Id., Establishing the New Science. The Experience of the early Royal Society, Woodbridge1989, pp. 45–71; M. Boas Hall, Promoting Experimental Learning. Experiment and the Royal Society 1660–1727, Cambridge 1991, pp. 10–12. Among the historiographical reactions to the category of latitudinarianism as it was elaborated by Shapiro and Jacob see also the essays contained in R. Kroll, R. Ashcraft, P. Zagorin (eds.), Philosophy, Science and Religion in England 1640–1700, Cambridge 1992.

4 B.J. Shapiro, John Wilkins, pp. 130–137.

5 S. Ward, Vindiciae Academiarum, Oxford 1654, p. 2.

6 On the complex and manifold aspects of the debate that opposed Wilkins and Ward to Webster and Dell see, among the others, B.J. Shapiro, John Wilkins, pp. 98–110, and A.G. Debus, Science and Education in the Seventeenth Century. The Webster-Ward Debate, London and New York 1970.

7 On Harvey and his Oxford disciples see R.G. Frank Jr., Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists. Scientific Ideas and Social Interactions, Berkeley 1980, pp. 21–30.

8 For more details on the advancement of medical science in the seventeenth century and in Oxford in particular see A.G. Debus, The chemical philosophy, and R.G. Frank Jr., Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists, pp. 90 and ff.

9 The complete titles are respectively Euclides Physicus, sive de Principiis Naturae, London 1657, and Euclides Metaphysicus, sive de Principiis Sapientiae, London 1658.

10 On Bathurst’s scientific interests and contribution to the history of medicine and chemistry see R.G. Frank Jr., Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists, pp. 106–113.

11 T. White, Euclides Physicus, sig.A3v–A4r.

12 T. White, Euclides Metaphysicus, sig.A4r.

13 On Scarburgh’s role in Oxford see R.G. Frank Jr., Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists, pp. 27–30.

14 T. White, Euclides Metaphysicus, sign.A4r–v.

15 B.J. Shapiro, John Wilkins, p. 225.

16 More details on Scarbugh’s life can be found in DNB sub voce Scarburgh, Charles, and in F.G. Frank Jr., Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists, pp. 27 and ff. passim.

17 [linea autem brevissima divisi possit in tot partes in quot quaelibet alia secta est] [nullus autem possit esse finis addendi unam lineam ad aliam; consequens est nullum etiam esse finem partium cujuslibet lineae minimae, vel corporis a lineis mensurabilis] Ibid., pp. 19–20.

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