Founded by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists in 1696, Halle s Orphanage became the centerpiece of a campus comprised of an elite school for the sons of noblemen; schools for the sons of artisans, soldiers, and preachers; a hospital; an apothecary; a bookshop; a botanical garden; and a cabinet of curiosity containing architectural models, "naturalia," and scientific instruments. It was closely affiliated with the newly founded University of Halle and forged lasting connections with Tsar Peter the Great. Later it ...
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Founded by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists in 1696, Halle s Orphanage became the centerpiece of a campus comprised of an elite school for the sons of noblemen; schools for the sons of artisans, soldiers, and preachers; a hospital; an apothecary; a bookshop; a botanical garden; and a cabinet of curiosity containing architectural models, "naturalia," and scientific instruments. It was closely affiliated with the newly founded University of Halle and forged lasting connections with Tsar Peter the Great. Later it became the headquarters of the world s first Protestant mission to India. Yet, due to the Orphanage s reputation as a Pietist enclave inhabited largely by young people (hardly the gentleman savants associated with the period s scientific academies and societies), the Orphanage has not been taken seriously as a scientific community. Drawing on an assortment of materials from the Orphanage s archive, Kelly J. Whitmer is the first to show how those involved with Halle as teachers and pupils worked together to interrogate natural processes by refining a range of experimental and observational proceduresand took the new skills they had acquired into the world. In doing so, she supports the bold claim that early modern philanthropic practices were dedicated to making and circulating knowledge. Whitmer argues specifically that Halle, the first model community built to encourage benevolent habits, ought to be understood as part of pan-European efforts to hone experimental techniques. This is an exciting new way to conceive of objectivity and experiment inthe early Enlightenment, for it calls into question a longstanding tendency to view German Pietists as anti-reason and anti-science."
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New. 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. Num Pages: 200 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442. 2015. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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