TS II: Science and Religion (fall 2021)

Presentation: Fatma Nur + Robert

Discussion leaders: Darrah + Rebeka

Assigned reading:

William Whiston, A New Theory of the Earth, From its Original, to the Consummation of all Things (1696) (and full text).

Isaac Newton, fragments from a Treatise on Revelation [you may also want to consult The Newton Project]

Margaret Jacobs, "Christianity and the Newtonian worldview," God and Nature (1986).

Suggested reading:

Isaac Newton, extract from the ‘General Scholium’ from the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, vol. 2 (London, 1729).

Sir Isaac Newton, "Query 31" from OPTICKS: OR, A TREATISE OF THE Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours OF LIGHT, 4th ed., corrected (London, 1730), 376-406 (abridged).

Frank Manuel, The Religion of Isaac Newton (1974).

Rob Iliffe, "The religion of Isaac Newton," The Cambridge Companion to Newton, 2d ed., 485-523.

Rob Iliffe, Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton (2017). 

Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, The foundations of Newton's alchemy : or, "The hunting of the greene lyon" (1975).

Jed Z. Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2013). 

David Kubrin, "Newton and the cyclical cosmos: Providence and the mechanical philosophy," Journal of the History of Ideas 28 (1967): 325-346.

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The in-class PowerPoint slides are available through CEU OneDrive here.