“Is he like other men?”: The meaning of the Principia mathematica, and the author as idol (1995)
Description “This paper links one aspect of the genealogy of Newton's Principia to the processes of self-fashioning which its author adopted. I examine how Newton prepared the Principia for publication during the mid-1680s in the light of his belief that the Ancients had once possessed the true religion and philosophy, and then lost it because of idolatrous tendencies. I demonstrate how he controlled accounts of the meaning of the Principia by selectively allowing access to himself and to his private notes.”
Book Maclean, Gerald (1995) Culture and society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, drama, history.
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