Bernard Nieuwentyt - Wikipedia Bernard Nieuwentyt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Bernard Nieuwentyt. Bernard Nieuwentijt, Nieuwentijdt, or Nieuwentyt (10 August 1654, West-Graftdijk, North Holland – 30 May 1718, Purmerend) was a Dutch philosopher, mathematician, physician, magistrate, mayor (of Purmerend), and theologian. Contents 1 Career 2 Works 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links Career[edit] As a philosopher, Nieuwentyt was a follower of Descartes and an opponent of Spinoza. In 1695 he was involved in a controversy over the foundations of infinitesimal calculus with Leibniz.[1] Nieuwentijt advocated 'nilsquare' infinitesimals (which have higher powers of zero), whereas Leibniz was uncertain about explicitly adopting such a rule - they did however come to be used throughout physics from then on. He wrote several books (in Dutch) including his chief work Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen, ter overtuiginge van ongodisten en ongelovigen [The True Use of Contemplating the World] (1715), which argued for the existence of God and attacked Spinoza.[2] It went through several editions (1715, 1717, 1720, 1725, 1730, 1740) published by Joannes Pauli, and was translated into English as The religious philosopher, or the right use of contemplating the works of the Creator (1718) and into French as De l'existence de Dieu démontrée par les merveilles de la nature, ou traité téléologique dirigé contre la doctrine de Spinoza par un médecin hollandais. Voltaire owned a copy of this book, and it was an influence on William Paley,[2] to the extent that in 1859 Robert Blakey could make "a detailed argument for plagiarism" by Paley.[3] To the English version was added a letter to the translator by John Theophilus Desaguliers.[4] Nieuwentyt's posthumously published Gronden van zekerheid [Fundaments of Certitude, or the Right Method of Mathematicians in the Ideal as well as the Real] (1720) argued Spinoza's 'geometrical method' was not the proper 'experimental method' of science. The work also contains a critique of the ontological argument similar to a later critique by Kant.[1] Works[edit] Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen, ter overtuiginge van ongodisten en ongelovigen, Amsterdam, 1715 The Religious Philosopher, 1718 Gronden van zekerheid, 1720 See also[edit] Continuum (theory) References[edit] ^ a b Beth, Evert W (1950). "Critical Epochs in the Development of the Theory of Science". British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 1 (1): 27–42. doi:10.1093/bjps/I.1.27. S2CID 121047594. ^ a b Jonathan Israel, Enlightenment Contested, p. 385–6 ^ Benjamin C. Jantzen (2014). An Introduction to Design Arguments. Cambridge University Press. pp. 168–169. ISBN 978-0-521-18303-1. ^ Bernard Nieuwentyt The Religious Philosopher: Or, The Right Use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator, Vol. II (transl. by John Chamberlayne) Cambridge: Cambr. Uni. Press, 2015 Further reading[edit] E. W. Beth, Nieuwentyt's significance for the philosophy of science, Synthese, Vol. 9 No. 1, 1955, pp. 447-453 (Published also as Chapter V in Science: a Road to Wisdom, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland, 1972, Print ISBN 978-94-011-7646-0, DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-7644-6_5.) Gysel C., Odontology, theology and antispinozism according to Bernard Nieuwentyt (1654-1718), Ned Tijdschr Tandheelkd, 1977 Jun; 84(6):214-6. Michael John Petry (1979). Nieuwentijt's Criticism of Spinoza, E. J. Brill. R. H. Vermij (1989). Een zekere, zakelijke wijsbegeerte. Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 51 (3):544-544. JANTZEN, BENJAMIN C.. An Introduction to Design Arguments. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-1-107-00534-1 Hardback, ISBN 978-0-521-18303-1 Paperback. External links[edit] Works by or about Bernard Nieuwentyt in libraries (WorldCat catalog) Bernard Nieuwentyt The Religious Philosopher: Or, The Right Use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator, Vol. II (transl. by John Chamberlayne) Cambridge: Cambr. Uni. Press, 2015 Authority control BNE: XX1700664 BNF: cb14587835s (data) BPN: 80045696 GND: 118913727 ISNI: 0000 0000 8125 7123 LCCN: n81053425 NKC: mzk2016930084 NLI: 000436534 NTA: 069946795 PLWABN: 9811510397605606 SELIBR: 278718 SUDOC: 074237489 VcBA: 495/222335 VIAF: 47008886 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n81053425 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Nieuwentyt&oldid=998387106" Categories: 1654 births 1718 deaths 17th-century Dutch philosophers 18th-century Dutch philosophers Christian philosophers Dutch Christian theologians 17th-century Dutch mathematicians People from Graft-De Rijp Enlightenment philosophers Age of Enlightenment Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with BPN identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Deutsch Français مصرى Nederlands Piemontèis Slovenščina Edit links This page was last edited on 5 January 2021, at 04:17 (UTC). 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