William Whiston succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1703. Like his predecessor, Whiston presents an interesting combination of the scientific and the theological mind, but whereas Newton carefully concealed the true nature of his religious beliefs, Whiston, a well-known preacher, did not. This is the first modern full-length study of Whiston's Newtonian rapprochement between science and religion. Professor Force examines the writings in which Whiston applies his Newtonian Biblical interpretation to social, political, and theological issues in the context of the Newtonian movement at the turn of the eighteenth century. The book revises the conventional view of Whiston as a figure peripheral to the Newtonian movement and reveals the nature of Whiston's 'Newtonianism' and his individual eccentricities. It also offers valuable insights into Newton himself and the religious beliefs he so often concealed.
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The first full-length study of William Whiston, a contemporary and disciple of Sir Isaac Newton and successor to him as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1703.
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IN Section I of this chapter, I trace the historical details of Whiston's life, especially his opinions and attitudes about the controversies in which he took part and the people he know. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fulfilled historical prophecies, fulfilled prophetic predictions, specially provident deity, divine special providence, argument from prophecy, deist movement, latitudinarian bishops, general providence, design argument, provident nature, historical preface, prophecy interpretation, true text, fuller comprehension, third postulate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Theory, Boyle Lectures, Old Testament, Whiston's Newtonian, Astronomical Principles, Low Church, William Whiston, Apostolical Constitutions, High Church Tories, Sir Isaac Newton, Anthony Collins, Glorious Revolution, Samuel Clarke, David Hume, General Scholium, Jonathan Swift, Literal Sense of Scripture, Little Horn, Richard Bentley, Sir Joseph Jekyll, Tunbridge Wells, Whistonian Bible, Benjamin Hoadley, Divine Volume, Francis Atterbury New!
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IN Section I of this chapter, I trace the historical details of Whiston's life, especially his opinions and attitudes about the controversies in which he took part and the people he know. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fulfilled historical prophecies, fulfilled prophetic predictions, specially provident deity, divine special providence, argument from prophecy, deist movement, latitudinarian bishops, general providence, design argument, provident nature, historical preface, prophecy interpretation, true text, fuller comprehension, third postulate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Theory, Boyle Lectures, Old Testament, Whiston's Newtonian, Astronomical Principles, Low Church, William Whiston, Apostolical Constitutions, High Church Tories, Sir Isaac Newton, Anthony Collins, Glorious Revolution, Samuel Clarke, David Hume, General Scholium, Jonathan Swift, Literal Sense of Scripture, Little Horn, Richard Bentley, Sir Joseph Jekyll, Tunbridge Wells, Whistonian Bible, Benjamin Hoadley, Divine Volume, Francis Atterbury New!
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- Of Miracles (Open Court classics) by David Hume on 8 pages
- Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Isaac Newton on 8 pages
- Boyle Lectures (1692-1732) (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900) by Mark Spencer on 7 pages
- Oracles of Reason by Charles Blount on 6 pages
- William Whiston (The Development of science) by Maureen Farrell on 5 pages
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- Heaven Upon Earth: Joseph Mede (1586-1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées) by Jeffrey K. Jue on 4 pages
- Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740 by Robert Markley in Front Matter, page 177, and page 180
- What Have They Done to the Bible: A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation by John Sandys-Wunsch on page 206, and Back Matter
- Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason by Jan W. Wojcik on page 140, and Back Matter
- Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West by Margaret C. Jacob in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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