Martin Folkes (1690-1754) - Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur
Martin Folkes (1690-1754) - Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur
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马丁·福克斯 (1690-1754) - 牛顿、古董家、鉴赏家
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马丁福克斯（1690-1754）：牛顿，古董，鉴赏家是一个文化和智力传记的唯一主席都皇家协会和古董协会。艾萨克·牛顿爵士的门徒，天文学家，数学家，共济会会员，艺术鉴赏家，伏尔泰的朋友和霍加斯的赞助人，他是一个充满活力的智力世界。福克斯可能是他那个时代最有人脉的自然哲学家和古董商，是启蒙运动社交能力的缩影，然而他却令人惊讶地被忽视了，牛顿的影子遮住了他才华横溢的弟子。福克斯是一个复杂的人物，他在圣经年表中编辑了牛顿的遗作，但他是一个宗教怀疑论者，也是最早娶女演员的绅士之一。他的利益是多学科的，从他的著作的第一个完整的历史的英语coconut，工程有关古代建筑，统计概率和天文学。丰富的档案材料，包括福克斯的旅行日记，信件，和他的图书馆和艺术收藏品允许重建通过福克斯的眼睛是什么样子是一个收藏家和赞助人，共济会自由思想家，古物和艺术家在天前“科学”成为次专业。Folkes的艺术鉴赏力和可能的作用，在社会的古董和皇家学会的统一告诉对史学的假设，这是一个时代，“两种文化”的人文和科学分裂，从来没有重新统一。在乔治王时代的英格兰，古文物主义和“科学”被认为是同一努力的一部分。
Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociability, and yet he was a surprisingly neglected figure, the long shadow of Newton eclipsing his brilliant disciple. A complex figure, Folkes edited Newton's posthumous works in biblical chronology, yet was a religious skeptic and one of the first members of the gentry to marry an actress. His interests were multidisciplinary, from his authorship of the first complete history of the English coinage, to works concerning ancient architecture, statistical probability, and astronomy. Rich archival material, including Folkes's travel diary, correspondence, and his library and art collections permit reconstruction through Folkes's eyes of what it was like to be a collector and patron, a Masonic freethinker, and antiquarian and virtuoso in the days before'science'became sub-specialised. Folkes's virtuosic sensibility and possible role in the unification of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society tells against the historiographical assumption that this was the age in which the'two cultures' of the humanities and sciences split apart, never to be reunited. In Georgian England, antiquarianism and'science'were considered largely part of the same endeavour.