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Perceived risk and servicescape: The importance of managing the physical evidence in services marketing
No full textMargaret A. McOmish and Pascale G. Questerhttp://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/25410/20060410-0000/smib.vuw.ac.nz_8081/WWW/ANZMAC2005/index.htm
Adam King: a man for all seasons
No full textAdam King was born into a respectable family of advocates on the eve of the Scottish Reformation. He was a professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Paris for many years, who then returned to Scotland to become an advocate and commissary of Edinburgh. His family's adherence to the Catholic faith in the immediate aftermath of the Reformation was overt and vigorous, and led to significant disruption in their lives. This article charts the life and career of Adam through these turbulent times, from his battles with religious authorities to his emergence as a man with significant influence in post-reformation Scotland. It provides a preliminary map of his friends and acquaintances, and presents evidence that they reflect a strong literary and scientific culture in early modern Scotland, which transcended their religious affiliations and was addressing some of the most pressing questions raised by the Scientific Revolution
Not just a lawyer: Thomas Craig and humanist Edinburgh
No full textEdinburgh lawyer and jurist Thomas Craig was a prominent public figure in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jacobean Edinburgh. Our appreciation of Craig's cultural and intellectual legacy has usually been understood only through the prism of his well-known vocational activities in the law. Craig, however, was much more than a lawyer. He was part of a vibrant humanist culture in Edinburgh that played a significant part in wider European intellectual debates pushing the Scientific Revolution forward. Craig was an engaged and enthusiastic member of a circle of friends and family who were at the forefront of the sixteenth century's radical and transformative astronomical and mathematical debates. Evidence from a cross-section of Latin literary material reveals Craig's part in a remarkable intellectual awakening that took place in Humanist Edinburgh, and whose significance is only now beginning to be understood
A different view of innovation and international knowledge exchange from classroom notes: the University of Edinburgh, 1604-1650
Full text linkMany 17th-century student lecture notes survive from one of Europe's emerging educational centres, the University of Edinburgh. Particularly interesting are the early to mid-17th-century notes, whose content is scholastic in form, with lecturers reading passages from an authority text. The notes, however, contain a remarkably detailed account of the contemporary collapse of Aristotelian cosmology. A contemporary manuscript of teaching notes for Edinburgh's lecturers also survives, containing lists of books and manuscripts to be consulted by the students. These teaching notes were produced by a group of itinerant scholars returning to Edinburgh from centres across Europe. This chapter discusses the student notes as products of the manuscript and the cosmopolitan scholarly communities, stretching from Padua to Paris. These fascinating handwritten notes reveal how students were constantly updated on the latest developments in 17th-century scientific culture
The Scientific Revolution in Scotland Revisited
No full textThis chapter reviews scholarship on the Scientific Revolution in Scotland. A long-ignored manuscript of astronomical, mathematical, and natural philosophical verse and prose commentary provides an invaluable opportunity to explore many of the aspects that have drawn the attention of revisionist studies. A preliminary evaluation of the manuscript’s form, content, and production-context provides the opportunity to gain a far more nuanced understanding of the progress of intellectual change during the long Scientific Revolution as literary, philosophical, and scientific dialectic forged new paths. The manuscript highlights that, contrary to the prevailing scholarly view, not only were the new methodological approaches and phenomenological theories of the Scientific Revolution being taught and debated in early modern Scotland; key educationalists within the realm from the time of Copernicus made significant contributions to scientific progress
Windows on the World: The Literary Revolutions of Adam King’s Genethliacon Iesu Christi
Full text linkThe first detailed assessment of the use made by Parisian professors of mathematics of the didactic tradition of sphere poetry in the late 16th century
2 A Community of Scholarship: Latin Literature and Scientific Discourse in Early-Modern Scotland
No full text“Was Kepler Being Ironic? Ramus Professors of Mathematics and the Nature of Their Hypotheses in the Classroom”
No full textThe educational reformer Petrus Ramus stipulated in his will and publications that his proposed new chair of mathematics at Paris should have certain
attributes: be well-schooled in Greek and Latin, esteem reason over authority, place an emphasis on geometry, arithmetic, optics, and mechanics, and champion
an astronomy without hypotheses. This latter challenge was taken up by Johannes Kepler when he suggested that he himself met Ramus’ criteria. This chapter will
explore the multiple ways in which two prominent holders of, and one candidate for the chair presented astronomical hypotheses to students in the classrooms of France and Britain, offering multiple hypotheses that seem to run contrary to Ramus’ stipulations. However, their activities reflected an interpretation that Ramus’ intention had been—as Kepler suggested—a desire to go beyond unnecessary speculation grounded in unprovable natural philosophical conjecture in order
to find a true astronomical model grounded in the specialist aptitudes specified in his will
A community of scholarship: Latin literature and scientific discourse in Early-Modern Scotland
No full textEuropean Networks and the Reformation of the University of Edinburgh: Astronomical disputations
No full textThis chapter presents the first in-depth analysis of the impact of a network of European astronomers, mathematicians, and natural philosophers upon the development of institutional science in Edinburgh in the 17th century. A series of astronomical theses from 17th-century formal education provide the focus for a detailed introduction to this group, with a critical apparatus of bibliographical, prosopographical, and specialist notes
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