Overview
Steno and the Philosophers offers an account of the life and works of the Danish scientist and theologian Nicolas Steno (1638-1686). Its aim is to study the intricate relations between philosophy, theology, and the emerging sciences (anatomy, medicine and geology in particular) in the early modern Republic of Letters through the biographical prism of one of its most fascinating members. Concentrating on Steno’s contributions to natural philosophy and his relations to philosophers, the volume portrays Steno, not only as an influential scientist and theologian, but also as a natural philosopher who played a pivotal, albeit ambivalent, role in the intellectual networks amongst philosophers and natural scientists in the late seventeenth century. Contributors include Raphaële Andrault, Jakob Bek-Thomsen, Daniel Garber, Vasiliki Girgoropoulo, Eric Jorink, Troels Kardel, Mogens Lærke, Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen, Justin E. H. Smith, Frank Sobiech and Pina Totaro.
Full Product Details
Author: Mogens Lærke ,
Raphaele Andrault
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 276
Weight: 0.609kg
ISBN: 9789004360648
ISBN 10: 9004360646
Pages: 12
Publication Date: 08 February 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This erudite collection of essays fills a lacuna in studies of early modern natural philosophy and Nicolas Steno (1638-86) [...] Steno's virtuosic mind combined religious and natural-philosophical erudition, keen visual sensitivity, and kinetic genius in dissection, making him a difficult character to analyze in our specialized academic world. In its multivariate and considered approach, this volume goes a long way to reconstructing the quality and character of Steno's thinking and his intellectual milieu. I highly recommend it. Anna Marie Roos, University of Lincoln, in Renaissance Quarterly LXXII.4 l'ensemble de l'ouvrage offre un temoignage particulierement significatif d'un aspect central de la crise du cartesianisme Henri Laux, Universite Paris I-Pantheon-Sorbonne, in Archives de Philosophie 82.4, pp. 861-862
Author Information
Raphaële Andrault, Ph. D. (2010), ENS de Lyon, is researcher at the CNRS. She has published monographs on early modern philosophy and life sciences, and a critical edition of Steno’s Discours sur l’anatomie du cerveau (Classiques Garnier, 2009). Mogens Lærke, Ph. D. (2004), Paris IV; Hab. (2014), ENS de Lyon, is senior researcher at the CNRS. He authored Leibniz lecteur de Spinoza (Champion, 2008) and Les Lumières de Leibniz (Classiques Garnier, 2015), and more than seventy articles on early modern philosophy.
