Newton and Religion

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InhaltsangabeForeword; J.E. Force. Introduction; R.H. Popkin. Essay 1. Alchemy and Eschatology: Exploring the Connections between John Dee and Isaac Newton; D.E. Harkness. Essay 2. Newton and the Rosicrucian Enlightenment; A.P. Coudert. Essay 3. From Paracelsus to Newton: The Word of God, the Book of Nature, and the Eclipse of the `Emblematic World View'; J.J. Bono. Essay 4. `Acceptable to inquisitive men': Some Simonian Contexts for Newton's Biblical Criticism, 1680-1692; J.A.I. Champion. Essay 5. Those `Whose Business It Is To Cavill': Newton's Anti-Catholicism; R. Iliffe. Essay 6. Newton, Corruption, and the Tradition of Universal History; R. Markley. Essay 7. Newton's Of the Church: Its Contents and Implications; M. Goldish. Essay 8. The Seven Trumpets and the Seven Vials: Apocalypticism and Christology in Newton's Theological Writings; S. Hutton. Essay 9. Interpretive Strategies in Newton's Theologiae gentilis origines philosophiae; K.J. Knoespel. Essay 10. Newton's Apocalypse; M. Murrin. Essay 11. Newton and the Guaranteeing God; G.A.J. Rogers. Essay 12. Newton, the `Ancients', and the `Moderns'; J.E. Force. Essay 13. The Logic of Millennial Thought: Sir Isaac Newton Among His Contemporaries; R. Smolinski. Index.

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