By Edward G. RUESTOW
2 results of the attitudes attribute of the small workforce of everlasting citizens on the faculties, the tutorial students. This conservatism, despite the fact that, used to be no longer far and wide both efficacious. within the 16th century, the colleges of northern Italy, Padua peculiarly, had nurtured an highbrow ferment of substantial importance to the increase of the hot technology, and so they persevered to be penetrated via the effect of that technological know-how during the 17th century. The Uni versity of Oxford momentarily performed host to' prime individuals of the English medical neighborhood in the course of the Commonwealth interval, and Cambridge was once almost immediately to boast the genius of Isaac Newton. certainly, a small variety of the one-hundred-odd universities in Europe strove kind of purposefully to come back to grips with the hot technology and to in no less than, in the physique of studying for which they company aspects of it, 2 held themselves dependable. one of the so much striking of those extra innovative faculties needs to be integrated the collage of Leiden, lately based via the Lowlanders in insurrection opposed to the King of Spain, Philip II. The doorways of the college of Leiden had first opened, to be certain, in the middle of uprising, and have been compelled open, because it have been, via rumors of peace. In 1572, the insurrection, with the Calvinists now sincerely within the van, got what used to be to turn out a permanent foothold within the maritime prov inces of Holland and Zeeland.
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Pp. 72-3. 84 Reif, "Natural Philosophy," p. 200. 60 81 FRANCO BURGERSDIJCK 27 Aristotelian "motion" was also conceived as encompassing all manifestations of change, including, even when generation and corruption were excluded, change in quantity and qUality as well as change in place. Indeed, it was qualitative change, "alteration," that provided Burgersdijck and his immediate successors at Leiden with their most frequent examples of motion, usually the heating or cooling of water. Like Aristotle himself, however, Burgersdijck and other scholastics granted a priority to the motion of changing place, "local motion," G5 and the depiction of all other types of change in terms of local motion alone would prove, at Leiden, one of the easier steps towards accommodating the new science.
Heereboord, "Ad curatores epistola," p. 9. 110 81 TUMUL T OVER CAR TESIANISM lecture hall by any means. 68 The student harassment of Stuart, whatever its source, became such, indeed, that he abstained from presiding over public disputations for the next two years, until instructed by the curators in 1651 to carry out all his expected duties. 71 In 1658, however, it was the rector of the university himself, Antonius Thysius, professor of eloquence, who complained of student harassment attributed to the influence of Heereboord.
52 The new title of professor primarius of philosophy was further created for him so that he should have rank over the younger Heereboord. 53 Vigorously supported by the professor primarius of theology, Jacobus Triglandius, and the regent of the state college for theology students at the university, Jacobus Revius,54 Stuart took up arms against the advance of Cartesianism at Leiden and was soon deeply embroiled with the enthusiastic defenders of the new philosophy, chief among them being his junior colleague, Heereboord.