Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts, 1560-1960Alasdair A. MacDonald, A. H. Huussen The present volume, number VII in the series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers a selection of papers presented at the International Conference 'Knowledge and Learning' held in November 2001 in Groningen. The first volume (number V in the series) is entitled Learned Antiquity: Scholarship and Society in the Near east, the Greco-Roman World, and the Early Medieval West, and has been edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald, Michael W. Twomey and Gerrit J. Reinink. The second (volume VI) bears the title Schooling and Scholarship: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages, and has been edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald and Michael W. Twomey. The papers in the present volume, Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1560-1960, written by scholars in such disciplines as science, education and cultural history, treat various matters concerning scholarship in the period from the Renaissance until the mid twentieth century. |
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Contents
Prefigurations of the Future? The Views | 15 |
Practising Continuity The Academy at Groningen 15951625 | 33 |
Changing Conceptions of Conception in English Popular Science | 49 |
Francis Bacons The Advancement of Learning | 65 |
Anne Conway and Margaret Cavendish | 93 |
Where Centres of Knowledge and Learning and Centres of Culture | 107 |
What is the History of Literature? | 121 |
The Appropriation of Descartes in NineteenthCentury Philosophy | 135 |
The Position of Dutch and American Women in Early | 151 |
A Year at the Center Experiences and Effects of the first | 169 |
The Dictators secret Archives Rationales for their Creation | 181 |
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