Title Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia : the University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the seventeenth century / Pietro Daniel Omodeo.

Imprint	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]
	©2022

Location	Call Number	Status
Monograph Collection	B1875 .O46 2022	AVAILABLE

Description	xxx, 214 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Content	text txt
Media	unmediated n
Carrier	volume nc
Series	Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 62.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	Chapter 1. Cartesianismus-Streit at Frankfurt an der Oder: Johannes Placentinus and His Opponents, 1653-1656 -- Chapter 2. Nature and Scripture: Confessional Networks and Cross-Confessional Exegetic Problems -- Chapter 3. A Cartesian-Scholastic Controversy over the Origin of Life Opposing Frankfurt and Wittenberg, 1659-1660 -- Chapter 4. The Mechanization of Astrology, 1661-1665 -- Chapter 5. Placentinuss Cometary Correspondence with Hevelius and Lubieniecki -- Chapter 6. Medical and Demonological Approaches to Descartess Psychophysical Dualism: Andreae and Brecht -- Chapter 7. Cartesian Bodies: Experiments on Embalmment -- Chapter 8. The Cultural Politics of Cartesianism.
Local Note	Gift of Larry Principe, May 2024.
Subject(s)	Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
	Universität Frankfurt an der Oder -- History -- 17th century.
	Rationalism -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Germany -- History -- 17th century.
	Philosophy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Germany -- History -- 17th century.