Article ID: CBB246385847

Modelling the History of Early Modern Natural Philosophy: The Fate of the Art-Nature Distinction in the Dutch Universities (2019)

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The ‘model approach’ facilitates a quantitative-oriented study of conceptual changes in large corpora. This paper implements the ‘model approach’ to investigate the erosion of the traditional art-nature distinction in early modern natural philosophy. I argue that a condition for this transformation has to be located in the late scholastic conception of final causation. I design a conceptual model to capture the art-nature distinction and formulate a working hypothesis about its early modern fate. I test my hypothesis on a selected corpus of 25 works published in the Dutch academic milieu between 1607 and 1748. I analyse the corpus through a procedure based on concordancing of keywords associated with the model. I argue that the results obtained constitute a successful pilot study for the implementation of the model approach on larger scale research.

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Authors & Contributors
Anfray, Jean-Pascal
Jip van Besouw
Giovanni Santucci
Alessia Castagnino
Michela di Macco
Connolly, Patrick J.
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Nature
Science and art
Universities and colleges
Cartesianism
Scholasticism
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Early modern
20th century
19th century
Places
Netherlands
Europe
Leiden (Netherlands)
England
Italy
France
Institutions
Arcadia
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Katholieke Universiteit Brabant (Netherlands)
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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