Halle Orphanage As Scientific Community - Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment

Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. The author reveals, those teaching and training in Halle Orphanage contributed to the transformation of scientific observation and its related activities. Zusammenfassung Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists! the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. The author reveals! those teaching and training in Halle Orphanage contributed to the transformation of scientific observation and its related activities.

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• Authors: Kelly Joan Whitmer, Whitmer Kelly Joan
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.05.2015
• EAN: 9780226243771
• ISBN: 978-0-226-24377-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Germany, SCIENCE / History, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, C 1700 To C 1800