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The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe
The writings and example of Isaac Newton transformed understandings of the practice and meaning of the sciences across Europe in the century or so following the publication of the Principia in 1687. The essays in these volumes consider the impact of Newton's ideas from three distinct but interlocking perspectives: their reception in particular geographical areas and language communities; their importance for particular fields of intellectual and practical endeavour, and their influence on other thinkers who, in turn, shaped Newton's intellectual legacy. They provide, for the first time, a picture of the fate of Newton's work across mainland Europe, giving an account of Newton's influence in the arts and social sciences, as well as in mathematics or physics.
Jewish Books and their Readers
Jewish Books and their Readers asks what constituted a ‘Jewish’ book in early modern Europe: how it was presented, disseminated, and understood within Jewish and Christian environments, and what effect this had on views of Jews and their intellectual heritage.
Footprints of the Lion
" ... The exhibition looks behind the facade of Newton's publications to examine the way in which he worked. it illustrates the complete range of his intellectual activities in mathematics, natural philosophy, theology, and alchemy, and draws on material from the Macclesfield Collection ..."--Back cover
The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford
Edition, with full notes and apparatus, of a text which sheds much light on university affairs at the time. The Warden's Punishment Book is a record of punishments imposed on the Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, for minor infringements of the statutes and of College discipline, from its inception in 1601 until 1851. It is a uniquedocument in terms of its scope and detail among the College records of Oxford and Cambridge and provides significant insights into the daily life and personal relationships of such an institution during the early modern period. This volume presents an edition of the text of the Punishment Book, with a substantial biographical register detailing the careers of t...
Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c.1650-1950
The claim that the Bible was 'the Christian's only rule of faith and practice' has been fundamental to Protestant dissent. Dissenters first braved persecution and then justified their adversarial status in British society with the claim that they alone remained true to the biblical model of Christ's Church. They produced much of the literature that guided millions of people in their everyday reading of Scripture, while the voluntary societies that distributed millions of Bibles to the British and across the world were heavily indebted to Dissent. Yet no single book has explored either what the Bible did for dissenters or what dissenters did to establish the hegemony of the Bible in British c...
The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000
Histories of medicine and science are histories of political and social change, as well as accounts of the transformation of particular disciplines over time. Taking their inspiration from the work of Charles Webster, the essays in this volume consider the effect that demands for social and political reform have had on the theory and, above all, the practice of medicine and science, and on the promotion of human health, from the Renaissance and Enlightenment up to the present. The eighteen essays by an international group of scholars provide case studies, covering a wide range of locations and contexts, of the successes and failures of reform and reformers in challenging the status quo. They...
Newton and Religion
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.
Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700-Present
These volumes describe how the development of the different styles of interpretation found in reading scripture and nature have transformed ideas of both the written word and the created world.
Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: Up to 1700 (2 vols)
These volumes describe how the development of the different styles of interpretation found in reading scripture and nature have transformed ideas of both the written word and the created world.
The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple
Accounts of the rise in early modern Europe of new methods of investigating and understanding the natural world have often overlooked the importance of biblical metaphors of knowledgte. Four Old Testament episodes in particular assumed special signifcance in the period: the stories of the Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, and Solomon's Temple . . . The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple illustrates the significance of biblical metaphors of knowledge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through an examination of contemporary books, bibles and others objects. Particular focus is placed on the circle of authors and projectors which formed in England from the 1630s around the emigre German activist, Samuel Hartlib, as documented in his extensive correspondence and notebooks. -- Book cover.
