Author: Wiesenfeldt, Gerard.
Title: Leerer Raum in Minervas Haus : Experimentelle Naturlehre an der Universität Leiden, 1675-1715.
Description: Amsterdam : KNAW, 2002. Hardcover. xviii,464 pp. ills. German text. (History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands volume 2). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : new. - Experimental natural philosophy played a crucial role for the institutionalisation of the new sciences in the second half of the seventeenth century. Its central instrument the air-pump became an emblem of the changed world view. In this study Gerhard Wiesenfeldt follows the history of the disciplineand its instrument at Leiden University. Introduced in a periodof grave political, economic and intellectual crisis, the experimentswith the air-pump and the Theatrum physicum quickly became an integral part of university life. ISBN 9789069843391.

Keywords: HISTORY OF SCIENCE, history of science