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Science in Trinity College Dublin in the Seventeenth Century (2023)

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This paper examines the teaching of science at Trinity College, Dublin in the seventeenth century. It focuses on three periods: from the foundation of the University of Dublin in 1592 to the 1641 rebellion; Cromwellian innovations of the 1650s; and the impact of the new science in the later seventeenth century. By reconstructing the college’s early library collections, in conjunction with staff and student notebooks, it explores the factors affecting the teaching of the scientific curriculum up to 1641, focusing in particular on the dominance of Ramism. The impact members of the reformist circle of Samuel Hartlib (1600-82), such as Miles Symner (d. 1686), in attempting, in the 1650s, to implement a Baconian-inspired agenda devoted to experimental and applied learning, is likewise investigated. Finally, by using the Loan Books for the college library in the 1680s and 1690s, and the papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society from the 1680s onwards, the paper illustrates the availability and access to works of the new science, and outlines the dominant themes and favoured authors of books borrowed by members of Trinity College Dublin function of in early seventeenth century’s. The paper ends with an analysis of official attitudes to the relationship between science and religion in the last decade of the seventeenth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Ash, Eric H.
Barnard, T. C.
Beckman, Jenny
Charmasson, Thérèse
Cullen, Clara
Hall, Crystal
Journals
History of Science
Journal of Jesuit Studies
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Irish Historical Studies: Joint Journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
University of Pennsylvania
Aracne
Editions du CTHS
Hermann
Concepts
Libraries and archives
Scholarly publishing
Science education and teaching
Correspondence and corresponding
Public understanding of science
Societies; institutions; academies
People
Hartlib, Samuel
Fitzgerald, George Francis
Galilei, Galileo
Hamilton, William Rowan
Kane, Robert
Schrödinger, Erwin
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
19th century
18th century
20th century
Renaissance
Places
Dublin (Ireland)
France
Italy
England
East Africa
Paris (France)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Dublin Philosophical Society
Trinity College Dublin
American Chemical Society
Cambridge University
Museum of Irish Industry
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