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The Palfrey Notebook: Records of Study in Seventeenth-Century Cambridge

The Palfrey Notebook: Records of Study in Seventeenth-Century Cambridge

Cook, C. J.

Hardcover

Series: History of the University of Cambridge, Book 7

General EducationGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1843836661
ISBN13: 9781843836667
Publisher: Boydell Pr
Published: Dec 15 2011
Pages: 818
Weight: 3.50
Height: 2.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Fully annotated edition of a Cambridge student's notebook from the seventeenth century sheds important light on developments in philosophy during the period, as well as on the structure and content of a university education.

The Palfrey Notebook is a unique survival from the early seventeenth century. Compiled in around 1623 by George Palfrey of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, probably as a record of his studies for his Master's degree, it covers many of the widely-used texts of the period. Although primarily devoted to a detailed evaluation of Aristotelian natural philosophy, it includes an extended survey of the literature on Natural Magic, records of orations and disputations (including Palfrey's own) delivered in college or at the Schools, notes on logic and ethics, personal notes, and anti-papal diatribe. Since the Master of the college at the time was the renowned, moderate-Calvinist scholar Samuel Ward, Palfrey's views, as reflected in the Notebook, can be taken to represent this aspect of Anglicanism, although most of the sources are Roman Catholic, specifically Jesuit texts.

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