By Kelly Joan Whitmer
The Halle Orphanage as clinical group calls into query a long-standing tendency to view German Pietists as anti-science and anti-Enlightenment, arguing that those trends have drawn cognizance clear of what used to be truly occurring contained in the orphanage. Whitmer indicates how the orphanage’s id as a systematic group hinged on its promoting of philosophical eclecticism as a device for assimilating views and observations and dealing to ideal one’s skills to watch methodically. as a result of hyperlink among eclecticism and commentary, Whitmer finds, these instructing and coaching in Halle’s Orphanage contributed to the transformation of medical commentary and its similar actions during this period.
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29 Despite these complications, Orphanage teachers took his pedagogical advice quite seriously. ”31 After he wrote his Basic Guide to the Useful Sciences for Francke, Tschirnhaus sent a copy of it to Leibniz. From Berlin, Spener also tried to ensure a copy landed in Leibniz’s hands. 32 He said he wished Tschirnhaus had gone into more detail but overall felt the text contained some “good and useful” prescriptions. 33 He then wrote a detailed review of the Basic Guide and sent a copy of it to Tschirnhaus.
After leaving Saxony at the age of eighteen to study in Leiden, the young Tschirnhaus met Baruch Spinoza, who became a confidant and advisor. 2 He joined the Académie des sciences in Paris in 1682 but never received a pension. Tschirnhaus probably became best known for his secret work on developing a recipe for porcelain that would result in Germany’s first porcelain fac20 BUILDING A ScIENTIFIc cOMMUNIT Y tory in Meissen, Saxony. 3 These circumstances make Tschirnhaus’s interest in the Orphanage especially puzzling.
Tschirnhaus’s method, in other words, was inextricably linked to meditation and other forms of spiritual exercise perfectly suited to the aims of those involved in founding the Orphanage. In this same letter, Tschirnhaus indicated to Francke that he had written him a summary of his method. 9 The Medicina was an expression of his interest in helping to develop a new science of the mind, in keeping with the efforts of his friend and mentor Spinoza. ”11 Tschirnhaus’s goal was to find a way of reconciling a growing rift between those who preferred empirical methods and those who adopted a rationalist approach to knowing the world.