List of Contributors |
Preface |
Introduction |
The Canonical Imperative: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler1: |
The Canon in Question / Part I: |
Newton as Final Cause and First Mover / B. J. T. Dobbs2: |
The Scientific Revolution Reasserted / Richard S. Westfall3: |
Canonical Disciplines Re-Formed / Part II: |
The Role of Religion in the Lutheran Response to Copernicus / Peter Barker4: |
Catholic Natural Philosophy: Alchemy and the Revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby / Bruce Janacek5: |
Vital Spirits: Redemption, Artisanship, and the New Philosophy in Early Modern Europe / Pamela H. Smith6: |
"The Terriblest Eclipse That Hath Been Seen in Our Days": Black Monday and the Debate on Astrology during the Interregnum / William E. Burns7: |
Arguing about Nothing: Henry More and Robert Boyle on the Theological Implications of the Void / Jane E. Jenkins8: |
Canonical Figures Reconsidered / Part III: |
Pursuing Knowledge: Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton / Jan W. Wojcik9: |
The Alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton: Alternate Approaches and Divergent Deployments / Lawrence M. Principe10: |
The Janus Faces of Science in the Seventeenth Century: Athanasius Kircher and Isaac Newton / Paula Findlen11: |
The Nature of Newton's "Holy Alliance" between Science and Religion: From the Scientific Revolution to Newton (and Back Again) / James E. Force12: |
The Fate of the Date: The Theology of Newton's Principia Revisited / J. E. McGuire13: |
Newton and Spinoza and the Bible Scholarship of the Day / Richard H. Popkin14: |
The Canon Constructed / Part IV: |
The Truth of Newton's Science and the Truth of Science's History: Heroic Science at Its Eighteenth-Century Formulation / Margaret C. Jacob15: |
Index |
List of Contributors |
Preface |
Introduction |
The Canonical Imperative: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler1: |
The Canon in Question / Part I: |
Newton as Final Cause and First Mover / B. J. T. Dobbs2: |