Humanism in an Age of Science: The Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age, 1632-1704

Brill (2009)
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Drawing on letters, orations and disputations, this book argues that during the seventeenth century, the Amsterdam Athenaeum, despite the revolutionary debates of the time, and despite the intellectual liberalism characteristic of Amsterdam, remained traditional in its teaching.

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