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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Force, James E[Herausgeber]
• Popkin, Richard H[Herausgeber]

Titel

Newton and Religion : Context, Nature, and Influence

Ist Teil von

• International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D�́�Histoire des Id©♭es : 161

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Essay 1 / Alchemy and Eschatology: Exploring the Connections between John Dee and Isaac Newton -- Essay 2 / Newton and the Rosicrucian Enlightenment -- Essay 3 / From Paracelsus to Newton: The Word of God, the Book of Nature, and the Eclipse of the �́�Emblematic World View�́� -- Essay 4 / �́�Acceptable to inquisitive men�́�: Some Simonian Contexts for Newton�́�s Biblical Criticism, 1680�́�1692 -- Essay 5 / Those �́�Whose Business It Is To Cavill�́�: Newton�́�s Anti-Catholicism -- Essay 6 / Newton, Corruption, and the Tradition of Universal History -- Essay 7 / Newton�́�s Of the Church: Its Contents and Implications -- Essay 8 / The Seven Trumpets and the Seven Vials: Apocalypticism and Christology in Newton�́�s Theological Writings -- Essay 9 / Interpretive Strategies in Newton�́�s Theologiae gentilis origines philosophiae -- Essay 10 / Newton�́�s Apocalypse -- Essay 11 / Newton and the Guaranteeing God -- Essay 12 / N
• Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginnings of a new picture of Newton has emerged. This volume of essays builds upon the foundation of its authors in their previous works and extends and elaborates the emerging picture of the `new' Newton, the great synthesizer of science and religion as revealed in his intellectual context