The Halle Orphanage as scientific community : observation, eclecticism, and pietism in the early Enlightenment / Kelly Joan Whitmer.

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...

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Main Author: Whitmer, Kelly Joan (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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505 0 |a Introducing the orphanage -- Building a scientific community -- Negotiating the Irenical turn -- Models and conciliatory seeing -- An observator and his instrument -- Extending the orphanage. 
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