Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Feingold, Mordechai (Editor), Navarro-Brotons, Victor (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 12
• Subjects: Education.; History.; Philosophy.; Medicine > History.; Science education.; Higher education.; Higher Education.; History, general.; History of Science.; Philosophy, general.; History of Medicine.; Science Education.

The past two decades have witnessed a striking re evaluation of early modern institutions of higher learning as impoverished intellectual centers, hostile to new modes of thought. The present volume offers the most comprehensive synthesis to date of the fecundity of early modern universities, their...