Article ID: CBB654569709

Different Shades of Newton: Herman Boerhaave on Newton Mathematicus, Philosophus, and Optico-Chemicus (2017)

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In this paper I will probe into Herman Boerhaave's (1668–1738) appropriation of Isaac Newton's natural philosophy. It will be shown that Newton's work served multiple purposes in Boerhaave's oeuvre, for he appropriated Newton's work differently in different contexts and in different episodes in his career. Three important episodes in, and contexts of, Boerhaave's appropriation of Newton's natural philosophical ideas and methods will be considered: 1710–11, the time of his often neglected lectures on the place of physics in medicine; 1715, when he delivered his most famous rectorial address; and, finally, 1731/2, in publishing his Elementa chemiae. Along the way, I will spell out the implications of Boerhaave's case for our understanding of the reception, or use, of Newton's ideas more generally.

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Authors & Contributors
Snobelen, Stephen David
Janiak, Andrew
Guicciardini, Niccolò
Ducheyne, Steffen
Morris, Andrew M. A.
Casini, Paolo
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Physics
Science and religion
Methodology of science; scientific method
Philosophy of science
Newtonianism
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Early modern
16th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Europe
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