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04550aam a2200457 i 4500 001 7CBE88CADDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230418010100 008 220906t20222022enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2022361133 020 $a 1802070257 020 $a 9781802070255 035 $a (OCoLC)1346505977 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCF $d QGK $d QGE $d AUXAM $d UMC $d OTZ $d AMH $d UAB $d DLC $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a e-gx--- 245 04 $a The Berlin Academy in the reign of Frederick the Great : $b philosophy and science / $c edited by Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet and Peter R. Anstey. 264 1 $a [Liverpool] : $b Liverpool University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xii, 275 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, $x 2634-8047 ; $v 2022:11 500 $a Published on behalf of the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index. 505 00 $t Appendix: 'On the duties of the academician' / $t Acknowledgement -- $t Introduction / $r Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. $t The four classes of the Berlin Academy / $r Peter R. Anstey -- $t 'Mother al all sciences' or mere speculation? The justification of metaphysics at the Berlin Academy between 1746 and 1765 / $r Annelie Grosse -- $t Eclectic philosophy and 'academic spirit': the Berlin Academy and the Thomasian legacy / $r Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet -- $t In search of a 'golden mean': experience and reasoning according to Louis de Beausobre / $r Angela Ferraro -- $t Maupertuis, Euler and the Leibnizian metaphysics behind the Principle of least action / $r Ansgar Lyssy -- $t Euler and the reflexive origin of the idea of space / $r Christian Leduc -- $t Experimental-Metaphysik at the Berlin Academy: the odd alliance between experience, mathematics and teleology / $r Paola Basso -- $t Origins of the arts, origins of man in Sulzer's academic essays / $r Alessandro Nannini -- $t Appendix: 'On the duties of the academician' / $r Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. 520 $a "This collection sheds new light on the nature, role and practice of philosophy and science in the renewed Berlin Academy from the mid-1740s to the 1770s, and in so doing provides a robust new instalment of materials for the broader task of constructing a historiography of philosophy at this important Enlightenment institution. The collection ranges from discussions of the roles of philosophy and natural philosophy in the formation of the reinvigorated Academy in the mid-1740s, to conceptions of the correct philosophical methodology to be deployed by the Academy. It provides the first ever study of the nature and arrangement of the new classes of the Academy, and a fresh appraisal of the Academy's methodological eclecticism. One recurring theme is the status of metaphysics: there are studies of both special metaphysics, including the study of the soul; general metaphysics, that is, the study of being in general; and foundational metaphysical principles and concepts, such as Maupertuis's Principle of least action, Euler's concept of space and Lambert's notion of an experimental metaphysics. The collection also takes the study of the Academy in new directions through focused studies of important figures whose writings deserve to be better understood, such as Jean Bernard Merian, Louis de Beausobre, Jean Henri Samuel Formey and Johann Georg Sulzer."--Page 4 of cover. 610 20 $a KoÌniglich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Philosophy and science $z Germany $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Enlightenment $z Germany. 610 27 $a KoÌniglich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00682536 650 7 $a Enlightenment. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912527 650 7 $a Philosophy and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01060832 651 7 $a Germany. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210272 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Prunea-Bretonnet, Tinca, $e editor. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000356697188 700 1 $a Anstey, Peter R., $d 1962- $e editor. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000114958242 710 2 $a Voltaire Foundation, $e issuing body. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781802070842 773 18 $w 990075856550202771 $g no:31858072866530 830 0 $a Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; $v 2022:11. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031944.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7CBE88CADDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search