ISBN:
9780674032576
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 422 S.
,
Ill
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2009
Keywords:
Kepler, Johannes
;
Learning and scholarship History
;
Learning and scholarship History
;
Learning and scholarship Europe, Western
;
History
;
Learning and scholarship United States
;
History
;
Werkanalyse
;
Europe Civilization
;
Europe Intellectual life
;
Europe Civilization
;
Westliche Welt
;
Gelehrsamkeit
;
Geschichte
;
Geistesleben
;
Bildung
;
Wissenschaft
Abstract:
Über Johannes Kepler S. 114 - 136
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- A sketch map of a lost continent: the republic of letters -- A humanist crosses boundaries: Alberti on "historia" and "istoria" -- A contemplative scholar: Trithemius conjures the past -- The world in a room: Renaissance histories of art and nature -- Where was Salomon's house? Ecclesiastical history and the intellectual origins of Bacon's new Atlantis -- Chronology, controversy, and community in the republic of letters: the case of Kepler -- The universal language: splendors and sorrows of Latin in the modern world -- Entrepreneurs of the soul, impresarios of learning: the Jesuits -- In no man's land: Christian learning and the Jews -- The history of ideas: precept and practice, 1950-2000 and beyond -- The Messrs. Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon and Mark Pattison -- Momigliano's method and the Warburg Institute: studies in his middle period -- The public intellectual and the American university: Robert Morss Lovett -- The public intellectual and the private sphere: Arendt and Eichmann at the dinner table -- Codex in crisis: the book dematerializes -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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