John Hutchinson s critique of Newtonian heterodoxy

Church History

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 581-597

  English, John C ^a  

^a BAKER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (53)

1. For example, Geoffrey Cantor, "Anti-Newton," in John Fauvel et al., Let Newton Be! (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 203-221
2. Robert E. Schofield, Mechanism and Materialism: British Natural Philosophy in An Age of Reason (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), 122-28
3. Arnold Thackray, Atoms and Powers: An Essay on Newtonian Matter - Theory and the Development of Chemistry (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970), 244-52. Subsequent footnotes will provide additional examples
4. cf. Richard Olson, "Tory High-Church Opposition to Science and Scientism in the Eighteenth Century: The Works of John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson," in The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton, ed. John G. Burke (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), 171-204
5. See Sarah Hutton, "Edward Stillingfleet, Henry More, and the Decline of Moses Atticus: A Note on Seventeenth-Century Anglican Apologists," in Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England, 1640-1700, ed. Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, and Peter Zagorin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 68-84
6. Henry More, Conjectura Cabbalislica. Or, A Conjectural Essay of Interpreting the mind of Moses, in the Three first chapters of Genesis, according to a Threefold Cabbala (London: printed by James Flesher, 1662)
7. Joseph M Levine, Dr. Woodward's Shield: History, Science, and Satire in Augustan England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), 42-43
8. On the distinction between "natural philosophy" and "science," see Andrew Cunningham, "Getting the Game Right: Some Plain Words on the Identity and Invention of Science," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 19 (1988): 365-89, especially 378-82
9. Maurice Wiles, "The Secret Arianism of Isaac Newton," in Archetypal Heresy: Arianism through the Centuries (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996), 77-93, esp. 84
10. HW 5:256-57; note Hutchinson's criticism of Socinus (HW 5:109)
11. Letters to Serena (London: printed for John Lintot, 1704), 183, 234
12. Margaret C. Jacob, The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1976), 238-45
13. C. B. Wilde, "Matter and Spirit As Natural Symbols in Eighteenth-Century British Natural Philosophy," British Journal for the History of Science 15 (1982): 101-104
14. Isaac Newton, Opticks Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light (New York: Dover, 1979), 370
15. Schofield, Mechanism and Materialism, 15, 16
16. Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy, vol. 4, Descartes to Leibniz (Westminster, Md.: Newman, 1958), 129
17. Newton, Mathematical Principles, 546
18. P. M. Heimann, " 'Nature Is a Perpetual Worker': Newton's Aether and Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy," Ambix 20 (1973): 5-8, summarizes the relationships between aethers, active principles, and spirits
19. For the context of this belief, see Wilde, "Matter and Spirit," 101-102
20. Paolo Casini, "Newton: The Classical Scholia," History of Science 28 (1984): 2
21. The answer to the question, to whom did Newton assign priority, the Egyptians or the Hebrews, is a matter of dispute among scholars. On the priority of the Egyptians, see John Gascoigne, " 'The Wisdom of the Egyptians' and the Secularisation of History in the Age of Newton," in The Uses of Antiquity: The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tradition, ed. Stephen Gaukroger (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1991), 171-212, esp. 190-93
22. Richard S. Westfall, "Isaac Newton's Theologiae Gentilis Origines Philosophiae," in The Secular Mind: Transformations of Faith in Modern Europe, ed. W. Warren Wagar (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1982), 19-21
23. Frank E. Manuel, Isaac Newton Historian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963), 89, 99-102
24. Scott Mandelbrote, " 'A Duty of the Greatest Moment': Isaac Newton and the Writing of Biblical Criticism," British Journal of the History of Science 26 (1993): 290
25. Frank E. Manuel, The Religion of Isaac Newton (Oxford: Clarendon, 1974), 117-18
26. Casini, "Classical Scholia," 1
27. Newton, Chronology, 22
28. Newton, Theological Manuscripts, 33
29. For Newton's conception of prophecy, see Manuel, Religion, 86-88
30. Popkin, "Bible Scholar," 117 n. 66
31. Correspondence of Isaac Newton, vol. 2, 1676-1687, ed. H. W. Turnbull (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960), 333
32. On accommodationist techniques of exegesis, see Betty J. T. Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 59-63
33. Jones, Memoirs, 27, 40
34. on Holloway, see Carroll, "Hutchinsonisme," 11, 29-30
35. Jones, Memoirs, 37
36. Newton, "Hypothesis Explaining the Properties of Light," presented to the Royal Society in 1675, in Cohen, ed., Newton's Papers, 178-90
37. Newton, Opticks, 376, 401
38. Newton, Opticks, 351
39. Jones, An Essay on the First Principles of Natural Philosophy (Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1762), 230
40. I. Bernard Cohen, Franklin and Newton (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1956), 384-85
41. idem, A Supplement: Containing Remarks on a Rhapsody of Adventures of a Modern Knight-Errant in Philosophy (Bath: printed for the author, etc., 1746)
42. Newton, Principia, 547
43. Martin, Supplement, 34
44. quoted by Cohen, Franklin, 415
45. Wilson, Essay, vi
46. For descriptions of Martin's ideas see Schofield, Mechanism and Materialism, 160-61
47. J. L. Heilbron, Electricity in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), 294-96
48. for Wilson, see Schofield, Mechanism and Materialism, 161-62
49. Heilbron, Electricity, 301-305
50. Horne, State, 65
51. For accounts of the experiments that Jones performed, see his Essay, 129-34, 254-58
52. Jones, Essay, 259
53. For references to "electric fire," see Jones, Essay, 25, 130, 134, 136