Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1560-1960 Book

	Preface and Acknowledgements	vii
	Introduction	ix
	Contributors	xiii
	The Paradigm Shift to beat all Paradigm Shifts	1
	Pre-figurations of the Future? The Views on the Boundaries of Church and State of William of Orange and Viglius van Aytta (1565-1566)	15
	Practising Continuity. The Academy at Groningen, 1595-1625	33
	Changing Conceptions of Conception in English Popular Science, c.1450- c.1650	49
	Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning. An Early Modern Programme for the Revision of the Systems of Disciplines	65
	Hinc Gothus exorti, Nos quoque Belga sumus. A Gothic Imaginary in a Dutch Perspective	75
	Rewriting Science: Anne Conway and Margaret Cavendish	93
	Where Centres of Knowledge and Learning and Centres of Culture meet. The Amsterdan Athenaeum and the Municipal Theatre	107
	What is the History of Literature?	121
	The Appropriation of Descartes in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy	135
	The Position of Dutch and American Women in Early Twentieth-Century Educational Sciences: Different Roots but Similar Outcomes	151
	A Year at the Center. Experiences and Effects of the first International Group of Fellows at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, ca. 1954-1955	169
	The Dictator's secret Archives. Rationales for their Creation, Destruction, and Disclosure	181
	Bibliography	197
	Index	219