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    The Practical Tradition of Dutch Newtonianism
    Wiesenfeldt, G ; Boran, EA ; Feingold, M (Brill, 2017-06-15)
    Dutch natural philosophers played a crucial role in interpreting and disseminating Isaac Newton's ideas throughout Europe. The chapter discusses how their views of Newton related to older Dutch traditions, most notably the so-called Dutch Mathematics - practical mathematics taught at universities in the vernacular for aspiring surveyors and military engineers. Within this field, a new understanding of natural philosophy had emerged, into which Newtonian science could be easily integrated.
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    The ‘Duytsche Mathematique’ and Leiden Family Networks, 1600–1620
    Wiesenfeldt, G ; Dijksterhuis, FJ ; Weber, A ; Zuidervaart, H (Brill, 2019)
    This interdisciplinary volume uses four hundred years of Dutch history as a laboratory to investigate spatialized understandings of the history of knowledge.
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    Agricola gegen den Rest der Gelehrtenwelt? Technisches Wissen an frühneuzeitlichen Universitäten
    Wiesenfeldt, G ; Pohl, N ; Farrenkopf, M ; Hansell, F (GNT-Verlag, 2020)
    World heritage life's work: Aspects of industrial culture and industrial archaeology, of the history of science and technology: Festschrift for Helmuth Albrecht on the occasion of his 65th birthday / edited by Norman Pohl, Michael Farrenkopf and Friederike Hansell
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    Empirische Wissenschaft als praktische Philosophie
    WIESENFELDT, GB ; Gehring, U (Wilhelm Fink, 2014)