Newton and Religion - Context, Nature, and Influence

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.

List of contents

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 / Newton, the "Ancients,"and the "Moderns".- Essay 13 / The Logic of Millennial Thought: Sir Isaac Newton Among His Contemporaries.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: James E. Force, Richard H. Popkin
• Assisted by: J. E. Force (Editor), J.E. Force (Editor), R. H. Popkin (Editor), R.H. Popkin (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9780792357445
• ISBN: 978-0-7923-5744-5
• No. of pages: 333
• Weight: 662 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 333 p. 1 illus.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas; International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées; International Archives of the History of Ideas; International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées; International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries