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The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community: Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment
Kelly Joan Whitmer
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Hardcover. 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.
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. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientific community and consisted 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. Yet its reputation as a Pietist enclave has prevented the organization from being taken seriously as a scientific academy-event ... Read more
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. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientific community and consisted 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. Yet its reputation as a Pietist enclave has prevented the organization from being taken seriously as a scientific academy-event ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226243771
SKU
V9780226243771
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About Kelly Joan Whitmer
Kelly Joan Whitmer is assistant professor of history at Sewanee: The University of the South.
Reviews for The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community: Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment
"Modernism takes many forms; what many of us thought was a credit to Pietism of the Franke school turns out to be an amalgam of differentiated Enlightenment thought. I strongly recommend reading this book and rethinking the issues." (Joanna Geyer-Kordesch, University of Glasgow)