Ducheyne Steffen
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Sci Context. 2021 Mar;34(1):25-50. doi: 10.1017/S0269889722000059.
Lambert ten Kate (1674-1731), the scholar of language, religious writer, art theoretician and collector, and natural philosophy enthusiast, was part of an informal network of Amsterdam-based mathematics and natural philosophy enthusiasts who played a pivotal role in the early diffusion of Newton's natural philosophical ideas in the Dutch Republic. Because Ten Kate contributed to several areas of research, it is worth asking whether connections can be found between his different scholarly activities and, more specifically, whether his oeuvre as a whole was shaped by his religious views, as has been suggested. In this essay, I shall argue that his oeuvre was indeed shaped by his religious beliefs, which reflect elements typical of Dutch , but also reflect a more general Christian orientation that transcends confessional divides. More particularly, I aim to show that, if we want to understand why Ten Kate was drawn to the natural philosophy of his day, and especially to Isaac Newton's (1642-1727), and why he sought to promote it, we also need to pay attention to this broader Christian orientation in his thought. Along the way, I shall add nuance to earlier characterizations of how ten Kate mobilized Isaac Newton's natural philosophy according to his own agenda.
兰伯特·滕·凯特（1674 - 1731），语言学者、宗教作家、艺术理论家与收藏家，同时也是自然哲学爱好者，他是一个以阿姆斯特丹为基地的数学与自然哲学爱好者的非正式网络的一员，这些人在牛顿自然哲学思想在荷兰共和国的早期传播中发挥了关键作用。由于滕·凯特在多个研究领域都有贡献，因此值得探讨他不同学术活动之间是否存在联系，更具体地说，他的全部作品是否如有人所暗示的那样，是由他的宗教观点塑造的。在本文中，我将论证他的作品确实是由他的宗教信仰塑造的，这些信仰既反映了荷兰的典型元素，也反映了一种超越教派分歧的更普遍的基督教倾向。更具体地说，我的目的是表明，如果我们想理解为什么滕·凯特被他那个时代的自然哲学所吸引，尤其是被艾萨克·牛顿（1642 - 1727）的自然哲学所吸引，以及他为什么试图推广它，我们还需要关注他思想中这种更广泛的基督教倾向。在此过程中，我将对早期关于滕·凯特如何根据自己的议程运用艾萨克·牛顿自然哲学的描述进行细化。
