Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2002-03-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2002.10428825
K. Kloth
{"title":"Some thoughts on the Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände","authors":"K. Kloth","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2002.10428825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2002.10428825","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Bibliography can take many forms: bibliographies of genres, English books translated into French or German, bibliographies of early editions—all these forms of bibliography are well known. Recently there has been an interest in the history of collections of books, not usually those amassed by chance (although this has happened in the Second World War), but collections that were formed deliberately. This took place in various ways. A sixteenth-century municipal library (‘Ratsbibliothek’), that was a mere working library, had other roots than a ducal library (‘Fürstenbibliothek’) brought together in the seventeenth century, and an eighteenth-century universal library (‘Universalbibliothek’) was conceived under other circumstances than a specialized library (‘Spezialbibliothek’) that arose in the nineteenth century. All differ in their cultural background, aims of their founders or owners, and periods of foundation — but all inform us about the society and background of each period and place.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"25 Suppl 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122825132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2002-03-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2002.10428843
Michael C. Carhart
{"title":"The sociological turn in the history of science: Review of a conference on ‘Experimentalkulturen’, Berlin, December 2001","authors":"Michael C. Carhart","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2002.10428843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2002.10428843","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract An experiment is an empirical test conducted in a laboratory to prove or disprove a hypothesis. So your science teacher taught you. Recent work in the history of science, however, shows that science is rarely disciplined in such a Boylean manner. Experimentation instead is a process of exploration, in which experimenters frequently have no idea what the outcome will be. The laboratory might actually be a room set apart for scientific purposes, but into that room are brought objects from daily life, technological gadgets designed with no scientific purpose in mind, and the thorougly unscientific concerns and dispositions of observers and participants alike.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125028165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2002-03-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2002.10428830
Ann E. Moyer
{"title":"The demise of the quadrivium and the beginning of the Scientific Revolution: Boethius in the sixteenth century","authors":"Ann E. Moyer","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2002.10428830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2002.10428830","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Narratives and analyses of the early stages of the phenomena known as the Scientific Revolution have tended by their nature to focus upon the formation of new patterns of thought, whether they be the ‘rise of experimental method’ or the rediscovery of Hermetic texts. The ‘quantification of nature’ appears on most such lists of fundamental innovations; and it is cenainly clear that during these years, mathematics and the uses of mathematics all underwent important and rapid change. Yet we also know that medieval scholars had discussed at length the cosmos' existence ‘in measure, number, and weight’; and several historians of science have sought to connect this medieval quantification with later scientific change. The medieval scholars, for their part, had recourse not only to that biblical phrase but also to other textual authorities, to the divisions of their curricula, and to their own classroom experience. In particular, they could refer to Boethius and his textbooks, staples since the eleventh century of the quadrivium, that mathematical portion of the liberal arts including arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. The quadrivium was not the only classification system or approach to mathematics in medieval Europe, but it was an important one, and one with a long life. That life effectively ended around 1600, owing not only to intellectual factors but also to institutional ones.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116482399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2002-03-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2002.10428829
P. O. Long
{"title":"Categories, disciplines, and values of transmission: A retrospective essay on Openness, secrecy, authorship","authors":"P. O. Long","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2002.10428829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2002.10428829","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study, which begins in antiquity and ends around 1600, investigates values of transmission (openness and secrecy), and issues of both authorship and ownership as they operated within the traditions of technical practice and the crafts. Further it includes studies of esoteric traditions such as alchemy and N eoplatonic traditions. Traditional historians assumed that science was open, whereas technology was secret. The openness of science seemed to be confirmed by the articulation of Mertonian norms (Robert Merton held that the institutional conception of science as part of the public domain is linked with the imperative for communication of findings) and by the current practices of scientific publication. The secrecy of the crafts and technologies has often been assumed to be an inherent attribute of these activities. It has been supposed that the interest of artisans in making profits from unique products would result in secrecy.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127488911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2002-03-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2002.10428828
Michael Hunter
{"title":"On editing the works of Robert Boyle","authors":"Michael Hunter","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2002.10428828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2002.10428828","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract After ten years of preparation, a definitive new edition of The Works of Robert Boyle by Edward B. Davis and myself was published in two batches of seven volumes, the first in July 1999 and the second in September 2000. This is the second time that a complete edition of Boyle's works has been produced, the first, by the cleric and antiquary Thomas Birch, having come out in 1744. The current edition is intended to supersede Birch's, and I hope that it will remain the standard edition as least as long as his, if not longer. More recently still, in August 2001, a sequel to the new edition of the Works has appeared in the form of a complete edition of Boyle's Correspondence in a further six volumes: this comparably supersedes the edition of a selection of letters to and from Boyle which formed part of Birch's edition, and which has hitherto represented the most substantial printed source for Boyle's correspondence. Here, I will limit myself to the new fourteen-volume Works of Boyle, reflecting on some of the challenges that had to be faced in producing the edition, and on some of the lessons that have been learned from executing it—both about Boyle and about editing more generally.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123814558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2002-03-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2002.10428824
Levent Yılmaz
{"title":"La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes et sa postérité","authors":"Levent Yılmaz","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2002.10428824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2002.10428824","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract La Qgerelle des Anciens et des Modernes : ce nom désigne un événement majeur de l'histoire culturelle de la France; l'événement qui a d'abordeu lieu à l'Académie Française a provoqué la naissance d'écrits qui lui ont aussitôt donné ce nom. Par la suite, toute une tradition, s'exerçant dans différentes directions, s'est employée à interpréter cet événement et à rechercher ses racines, déployant son champ sémantique jusque dans les siècles antérieurs qui avaient été, bien entendu, le théâtre de toute une série de confrontations, sans que ces confrontations aient jamais pris le nom de la ≪Querelle≫ : elles ne constituaient pas un événement, par principe, fondateur. Dans cet article, je vais essayer de raconter les épisodes de l'événement qui a donné son nom à une configuration générique; en un second lieu, j'essayerai de rendre compte des interprétations postérieures de la Querelle et de l'étendue de son champ sémantique. Ainsi il sera peut-être possible de comprendre pourquoi il fut nécessaire d'intégrer les phases antécédentes à la notion de la Querelle. Il est évident qu'une recherche sur la ≪Querelle≫ ne peut être faite indépendamment d'une histoire de sa réception.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128107050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2002-03-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2002.10428822
U. Schneider
{"title":"The International dictionary of intellectual historians: Prospectus and invitation to participate","authors":"U. Schneider","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2002.10428822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2002.10428822","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125727494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2002-03-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2002.10428827
F. Nethercott
{"title":"The making of a Russian philosophical terminology, 1800–1917","authors":"F. Nethercott","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2002.10428827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2002.10428827","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract One of the first things that strikes any student of Russian philosophy is the astonishing quantity of translated literature. This is particularly remarkable at the tum of the twentieth century when everything and anything was translated, from the classics to modern and contemporary works (sometimes in several versions). Indeed, it was not unusual for contemporary works to be translated into Russian before any other language. There are various hypotheses for explaining the high production of translated literature in Russia. One is that it served as a kind of panacea to what was felt, or admitted, as cultural isolation. Another, quite different view, is that it was a natural consequence of Russia's long-standing affinities with the cultural life of France and Germany (also England), meaning that translating and commenting on the poetical, philosophical, or historical writings of her European neighbours was simply part and parcel of national intellectual production. However, one sure explanation for the mass of translated literature in Russia is no more than pedagogical and pragmatic, namely the need to provide materials for teaching purposes.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129498098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2002-03-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2002.10428831
W. Gould
{"title":"Things thought too long: Joachim then and now","authors":"W. Gould","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2002.10428831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2002.10428831","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The reputation of Joachim of Fiore (c.1132–1202) is eight centuries old. My ‘now’ and ‘then’ span an infinitesimal period—the thirty-odd years since the publication of Marjorie Reeves, The influence of prophecy in the later Middle Ages (1969). His reputation became legendary when his Florensian Order commemorated him (according to the Acta Sanctorum), in the antiphon to vespers for his day as ‘Beatus Joachim, spiritu dotatus prophetico, decoratus intelligentia; errore procul haeretico, dixit futura ut praesentia’ Dante reused these words in Paradiso XII: ‘Endowed with a spirit of prophecy’ — certainly, but his doctrine of the Trinity had been condemned by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215. His saintly reputation remained secure until the Commission of Anagni and the papal condemnation of one of his followers in 1255, following the scandal of the Eternal Evangel in the University of Paris (1254/5).","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134542101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}