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John Wilkins (1614-72): New Essays presents ten fresh essays on the life and work of the influential English natural philosopher and theologian, John Wilkins. Wilkins, one of the most prominent figures in the scientific revolution in England, and a founder of the Royal Society of London, published widely on astronomy, mechanics, language, and theology, and was also an important churchman and politician. These ten essays review Wilkins’s writings and influence, while also addressing the wider contexts of his activities, including his service as head of house at two successive colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, and his political work. This new collection thus covers all aspects of Wilkins’s career, and functions as a complete reappraisal of this seminal early modern figure.
Contributors are: C. S. L. Davies, Mordechai Feingold, Felicity Henderson, Natalie Kaoukji, Rhodri Lewis, Scott Mandelbrote, Jon Parkin, William Poole, Anna Marie Roos, and Richard Serjeantson.
Contributors are: C. S. L. Davies, Mordechai Feingold, Felicity Henderson, Natalie Kaoukji, Rhodri Lewis, Scott Mandelbrote, Jon Parkin, William Poole, Anna Marie Roos, and Richard Serjeantson.
Price: $170.00
Pages: 294
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
Publication Date:
16 August 2017
ISBN: 9789004348080
Format: Hardcover
“Highly rewarding”
Michael Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. In: Isis, Vol. 109, No 4 (December 2018), pp. 842-843.
Michael Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. In: Isis, Vol. 109, No 4 (December 2018), pp. 842-843.
William Poole (D.Phil., Oxford, 2001) is Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, Oxford. He has published on many bibliographical and historical topics in early modern Britain, including the history of science.