Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground

ISBN-13: 9780367492182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Rienk Vermij

Opis

This book is the first extensive study of ideas on earthquakes before the Lisbon earthquake in 1755. Earthquakes had a deep impact on pre-modern European culture and reactions to them stood in a long tradition that, before this study, had yet to be explored in detail.

Spis treści

Part I: Scientific, philosophical, and religious traditions up to the Renaissance  1. Experiencing earthquakes  2. Reading on earthquakes: explanations and interpretations up to the end of the Renaissance  3. Writing on earthquakes: the available information  4. Earthquakes in Renaissance scholarship  Part II: Early modern confessionalized science  5. The assault on naturalism  6. The emergence of a science of signs  7. Prodigies in Reformation scholarship  8. Miracles and meteorology among Catholic scholars  9. Reactions to earthquakes in the sixteenth century: the emergence of a discourse  10. Interpreting earthquakes in the seventeenth century  11. Marginalized approaches  Part III: The rise of modern empiricism  12. New sources of information and the rise of a scientific public  13. New observations and theories: the non-confessional investigation of nature  14. Confessionalized natural philosophy in the age of the new sciences  15. Earthquakes in the religious discourse of the late seventeenth century

O autorze

Rienk Vermij obtained his PhD in 1991 at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and is presently Professor at the Department of History of Science of the University of Oklahoma. He has published on several aspects of early modern intellectual culture. Among his books is The Calvinist Copernicans. The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Repbublic 1575–1750 (2002).