Renaissance, Aufklärung (303 Artikel)

The >Wienerische Tugend-Spiegel< of 1687 develops a pedagogically oriented doctrine of virtue against the backdrop of the Turkish wars that is clothed in a description of the fortifications of Vien...

This treatise (published in 1693) develops the concept of a universal science based on mathematics. It is also conceived as a methodologically exact natural theology. The foundation of this method ...

Robert Fludd's (1574-1637) >Utriusque Cosmi Historia< is a key work of mystical »Naturphilosophie« in the early modern era. It is an encyclopedia of all those theories excluded from the scientific ...