Download or read book Seeking Truth Roger North s Notes on Newton and Correspondence with Samuel Clarke c 1704 1713 written by Jamie C. Kassler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue his search for truth, which for him meant knowledge of nature, including human nature. But this search was interrupted by three events. First, between c.1704 and the early part of 1706, he read Newton’s book on rational (quantitative) mechanics and, afterwards, his book on optics in Clarke’s Latin translation. Second, towards the latter part of 1706, he and Clarke, a Norfolk clergyman, corresponded about matters relating to Newton’s two books, after which Clarke removed to London and the correspondence ceased. Third, in 1712 North received a letter from Clarke, requesting him to read and respond to his new publication on the philosophy of the Godhead. As Kassler details, each of these events presented a number of challenges to North’s values, as well as the way of philosophising he had learned as a student and practitioner of the common law. Because he never made public his responses to the challenges, her book also includes editions of North's notes on reading Newton’s books, as well as what now remains of the 1706 and later correspondence with Clarke. In addition, she presents analyses of some of North’s ’second thoughts’ about the issues raised in the notes and 1706 correspondence and, from an examination of Clarke’s main writings, provides a context for understanding the correspondence relating to the 1712 book.
Download or read book Newton s Sensorium Anatomy of a Concept written by Jamie C. Kassler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton’s work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time. Newton used the concept of “sensorium” in writings intended for a public audience, in relation to both humans and God, but even today there is no consensus about the meaning of his term. The literal definition of the Latin term 'sensorium', or its English equivalent 'sensory', is 'thing that feels’ but this is a theoretical construct. The book takes readers on a process of discovery, through inquiry into both Newton’s concept and its underlying model. It begins with the human sensorium. This part of his concept is situated in the context of the aforesaid writings but also in the context of the writings of two of Newton's contemporaries, the physicians William Briggs and Thomas Willis, both of whom were at the forefront of their respective specialties of ophthalmology and neurology. Only once the human sensorium has been explored is it possible to generalize to the unobservable divine sensorium, because Newton's method of reasoning from experience requires that the second part of his concept is last in the order of knowledge. And the reason for this sequence is that his method, the short-hand term for which is 'analogy of nature', proceeds from that which has been observed to be universally true to that which is beyond the limits of observation. Consequently, generalization passes insensibly into reasoning by analogy. Readers will see how certain widespread assumptions can be called into question, such as that Newton was a theological voluntarist for whom the will is superior to the intellect, or that, for Newton, not only the world or universe but also God occupies the whole extent of infinite space. The insights afforded through this book will appeal to scholars of the philosophy of science, human physiology, philosophy of mind and epistemology, among others.
Download or read book The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought written by Peter R. Anstey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Early Modern Mathematical Principles and Symmetry Arguments -- 2 The Development of Principles in Equity in the Seventeenth Century -- 3 Alchemical and Chymical Principles: Four Different Traditions -- 4 The Two Comets of 1664-1665: A Dispersive Prism for French Natural Philosophical Principles -- 5 Corpuscularism and Experimental Philosophy in Domenico Guglielmini's Reflections on Salts -- 6 The Principles of Spinoza's Philosophy -- 7 Principles in Newton's Natural Philosophy -- 8 Leibniz on Principles in Natural Philosophy: The Principle of the Equality of Cause and Effect -- 9 Experimental Philosophy and the Principles of Natural Religion in England, 1667-1720 -- 10 A Conflict of Principles: Grotius's Justice versus Hume's Utility -- List of Contributors -- Index
Download or read book Saving the Church of England written by Daniel C. Norman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his second Atlantic voyage, George Whitefield read lengthy quotations from a work of a deceased English cleric. Writing in his journal, he exclaimed, “[These words] deserve to be written in Letters of Gold.” Whitefield’s associate, the American Jonathan Edwards, concurred. That cleric was John Edwards, an anomaly in several respects: a self-proclaimed Calvinist who conformed to the Church of England at a time when most Calvinists left in the Great Ejection of 1662. In leading a public debate against prominent intellectuals of his day, including John Locke and Samuel Clarke, over the definition of orthodox Christianity, he allied himself with the same church leaders who decried his Calvinist theology. Edwards retired in his mid-fifties due to “ill health”—a retirement in which he wrote over forty scholarly books. At the heart of his concern was the unity and doctrinal orthodoxy of the church, themes over which contentious disputes have reverberated throughout church history. Saving the Church of England tells the story of why the church was in trouble and of John Edwards’s heroic effort to save it.
Download or read book The Kingdom of Darkness written by Dmitri Levitin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1500, speculative philosophy lay at the heart of European intellectual life; by 1700, its role was drastically diminished. The Kingdom of Darkness tells the story of this momentous transformation. Dmitri Levitin explores the structural factors behind this change: the emancipation of natural philosophy from metaphysics; theologians' growing preference for philology over philosophy; and a new conception of the limits of the human mind derived from historical and oriental scholarship, not least concerning China and Japan. In turn, he shows that the ideas of two of Europe's most famous thinkers, Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton, were both the products of this transformation and catalysts for its success. Drawing on hundreds of sources in many languages, Levitin traces in unprecedented detail Bayle and Newton's conceptions of what Thomas Hobbes called The Kingdom of Darkness: a genealogical vision of how philosophy had corrupted the human mind. Both men sought to remedy this corruption, and their ideas helped lay the foundation for the system of knowledge that emerged in the eighteenth century.
Download or read book The Leibniz Clarke Correspondence written by Samuel Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rohault s System of natural philosophy illustrated with Dr Samuel Clarke s notes taken mostly out of Sr Isaac Newton s Philosophy With additions Done into English by John Clarke The second edition written by Jacques Rohault and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rohault s System of Natural Philosophy Illustrated with Dr Samuel Clarke s Notes Taken Mostly Out of Sr Isaac Newton s Philosophy With Additions Done Into English by John Clarke The Second Edition written by Jacques Rohault and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Leibniz Clarke correspondence written by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and published by [Manchester] : Manchester University Press ; New York : Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes including letters of other eminent men With an appendix containing other unpublished letters and papers by Newton With notes synoptical view of the philosopher s life By J Edleston written by Sir Isaac Newton and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes written by Isaac Newton and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Judgment of Dr Thomas Burnet Concerning the Doctrine of the Trinity extracted from De Fide Et Officiis Christianorum and the Judgment of Dr Samuel Clarke Concerning 1 The Satisfaction 2 The Merits 3 The Mediation and Intercession of Christ 4 The Ordinary Influence and Assistance of the Holy Spirit 5 The Two Sacraments With a Preface Concerning Mr Lock Sir Isaac Newton and Mr Wollaston written by Thomas BURNET (Master of the Charter House.) and published by . This book was released on 1732 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes written by J. Edleston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1850 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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