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ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES D'HISTOIRE DES IDEES INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS
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MICHAEL R. G. SPILLER
"CONCERNING NATURAL EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHIE" M eric Casaubon and ·the Royal Society
DIRECTORS: P. Dibon (Paris) and R. Popkin (Washington Univ., St. Louis) Editorial Board: J. Aubin (Paris); J. Collins (St. Louis Univ.); P. Costabel (Paris); A. Crombie (Oxford); I. Dambska (Cracow); H. de la Fontaine-Verwey (Amsterdam); H. Gadamer (Heidelberg); H. Gouhier (Paris); T. Gregory (Rome); T.E. Jessop (Hull); P.O. Kristeller(Columbia Univ.); Elisabeth Labrousse (Paris); A. Lossky (Los Angeles); S. Lindroth (Upsala); J. Orcibal (Paris); I.S. Revaht (Paris); Wolfgang Rod (Miinchen); J. Roger (Paris); G.S. Rousseau (Los Angeles); H. Rowen (Rutgers Univ., N.J.); Ch. B. Schmitt (Warburg Inst. London); G. Sebba (Emory Univ., Atlanta); R. Shackleton (Oxford); J. Tans (Groningen); G. Tonellit (Binghamton, N.Y.).
"CONCERNING NATURAL EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHIE" M eric Casaubon and the Royal Society
by
MICHAEL R.G. SPILLER
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1980
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CONTENTS I. LIFE AND WORKS OF MERlC CASAUBON II. THE CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION AND ITS LINES OF ATTACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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III. 'PRACTICAL, USEFUL LEARNING' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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IV. DESCARTES AND THE DECAY OF LEARNING. . . . . . . . . . . . .
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V. EPICURUS AND THE NEW PHILOSOPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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VI. 'CHIMISTS, BEHEMISTS AND ENTHUSIASTS' . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
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VII. RELIGION AND THE NEW PHILOSOPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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VIII. CONCLUSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
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APPENDIX I:
A Letter to Peter du Moulin (I669) . . . . . . . . ..
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APPENDIX II:
OnLearning(1667) .................... 191
BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 218 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
MEMORIAE GERALD B. SPILLER '/nsuevit pater optimus hoc me'
PREF ACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The purpose of this study is to do justice, in a modern edition, to the work described by one of the pioneer historians of sevent
