2 result of the attitudes characteristic of the small group of permanent residents at the schools, the academic scholars. This conservatism, however, was not everywhere equally efficacious. In the sixteenth century, the universities of northern Italy, Padua above all, had nurtured an intellectual ferment of considerable significance to the rise of the new science, and they continued to be penetrated by the influence of that science throughout the seventeenth century. The Uni versity of Oxford momentarily played host to' leading members of the English scientific community during the Commonwealth period, and Cambridge was shortly to boast the genius of Isaac Newton. Indeed, a small number of the one-hundred-odd universities in Europe strove more or less purposefully to come to grips with the new science and to in at least, within the body of learning for which they corporate facets of it, 2 held themselves responsible. Among the most notable of these more progressive schools must be included the University of Leiden, recently founded by the Lowlanders in revolt against the King of Spain, Philip II. The doors of the University of Leiden had first opened, to be sure, in the midst of rebellion, and had been forced open, as it were, by rumors of peace. In 1572, the revolt, with the Calvinists now clearly in the van, acquired what was to prove an enduring foothold in the maritime prov inces of Holland and Zeeland.

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Book Title: Physics at Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Leiden: Philosophy and the New Science in the University
Book Subtitle: Philosophy and the New Science in the University
Authors: Edward G. Ruestow
Series Title: Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2463-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1973
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1557-2Published: 31 July 1973
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2463-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 174
Topics: Philosophy, general, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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