Roos A.M., Manning G. (eds.) Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar: Essays in Honor of Mordechai Feingold

Springer, 2023. — 390 p. — (Archimedes)This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's scholarship has had on a range of fields and address several topics, including: the dynamic pedagogical techniques employed in early modern universities, networks of communication through which scientific knowledge was shared, experimental techniques and knowledge production, the life and times of Isaac Newton, Newton's reception, and the scientific culture of the Royal Society. Modeling the interdisciplinary approaches championed by Feingold as well as the essential role of archival studies, the volume attests to the enduring value of his scholarship and sets a benchmark for future work in the history of science and its allied fields.Introduction (by Gideon Manning, Anna Marie Roos).
History of Universities
Theology and the Arts Course in Tudor Oxford: An Unknown Treatise on Church Government by John Case (by Richard Serjeantson).
From Natio to Corps (1575–1820): The Birth of a New Type of Student Association in the Netherlands (by Leen Dorsman).
Daniel Sennert and the University of Padua: Circulation of Medical Knowledge and Scholars Across the Confessional Divide in the Seventeenth Century (by Pietro Daniel Omodeo).
Learning by Crib: Some Seventeenth-Century Oxford ‘Systems’ (by William Poole).
Science in Trinity College Dublin in the Seventeenth Century (by Elizabethanne Boran).
Intellectual History
Planks from a Shipwreck: Belief and Evidence in Sixteenth-Century Histories (by Nicholas S. Popper).
Galileo Among the Giants (by Anita Guerrini).
Galileo’s Fall of the Planets to the Copernican System of the World (by N. M. Swerdlow).
Descartes’ Experimental Journey Past the Prism and Through the Invisible World to the Rainbow (by Jed Z. Buchwald).
Newton
Henry More’s Epistola H. Mori ad V.C. and the Cartesian Context of Newton’s Early Cambridge Years (by Sarah Hutton).
Newton as Theologian, Artisan, and Chamber-Fellow: Some New Documents (by Dmitri Levitin, Scott Mandelbrote).
Newtonianism and the Physics of Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique (by Marius Stan).
Royal Society Luminaries
Whose Manner of Discourse? Sir William Petty, Civility, and the Early Royal Society (by Rhodri Lewis).
The Doctoral Dissertation of Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712): The Nervous Fluids and Iatrochymistry in Context (by Anna Marie Roos).
William Whiston, Experimental Lecturing and the Royal Society of London (by Stephen D. Snobelen).