Humanism in an age of science : the Amsterdam Athenaeum in the golden age, 1632-1704 Miert, Dirk Van 2009 Brill eBook titles 2009 ( Serie ) Boston : Brill Englisch 9789047430292 Abstract

Drawing on letters, orations and disputations, this book argues that during the seventeenth century, the Amsterdam Athenaeum, despite the revolutionary debates of the time, and despite the intellectual liberalism characteristic of Amsterdam, remained traditional in its teaching.