Newton and Newtonianism New Studies
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NEWTON AND NEWTONIANISM New Studies Edited by
JAMES E. FORCE and
SARAH HUTTON
Founding Directors: P. Dibon† (Paris) and R.H. Popkin (Washington University, St. Louis & UCLA) Director: Sarah Hutton (Middlesex University, United Kingdom) Associate-Directors: J.E. Force (Lexington); J.C. Laursen (Riverside) Editorial Board: M.J.B. Allen (Los Angeles); J.R. Armogathe (Paris); A. Gabbey (New York); T. Gregory (Rome); J. Henry (Edinburgh); J.D. North (Oxford); J. Popkin (Lexington); G.A.J. Rogers (Keele); Th. Verbeek (Utrecht)
NEWTON AND NEWTONIANISM New Studies edited by
JAMES E. FORCE University of Kentucky, Lexington, U.S.A. and
SARAH HUTTON Middlesex University, United Kingdom
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW
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CONTENTS
PREFACE —James E. Force and Sarah Hutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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INTRODUCTION —Margaret C. Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ESSAY 1 / “The New Newtonian Scholarship and the Fate of the Scientific Revolution” —Margaret J. Osler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ESSAY 2 / “Plans for Publishing Newton’s Religious and Alchemical Manuscripts, 1982–1998” —Richard H. Popkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ESSAY 3 / “Digitizing Isaac: The Newton Project and an Electronic Edition of Newton’s Papers” —Rob Iliffe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ESSAY 4 / “Was Newton a Voluntarist?” —Peter Harrison . . . . . . . . . . .
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ESSAY 5 / “Providence and Newton’s Pantokrator: Natural Law, Miracles, and Newtonian Science” —James E. Force . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ESSAY 6 / “Eighteenth-Century Reactions to Newton’s Anti-Trinitarianism” —Scott Mandelbrote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ESSAY 7 / “Prosecuting Athanasius: Protestant Forensics and the Mirrors of Persecution” —Rob Iliffe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 ESSAY 8 / “Lust, Pride, and Ambition: Isaac Newton and the Devil” —Stephen D. Snobelen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 ESSAY 9 / “Women, Science, and Newtonianism: Emilie du Chˆatelet versus Francesco Algarotti” —Sarah Hutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 ESSAY 10 / “Reflections on Newton’s Alchemy in Light of the New Historiography of Alchemy” —Lawrence M. Principe . . . . . .
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