Article ID: CBB000069255

Newtonian science, miracles, and the laws of nature (1995)

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Description Argues that “Newton, along with his most prominent disciples, William Whiston and Samuel Clarke, came to understand miracles in a way quite different from their 17th-century predecessors, and that in developing this new conception of the miraculous they managed to avoid those conceptual confusions which are thought to afflict the cognitive worlds of their earlier contemporaries.”


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Authors & Contributors
Snobelen, Stephen David
Force, James E.
Michael Granado
Wigelsworth, Jeffrey Robert
Westfall, Richard S.
Stewart, Larry R.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Journal of the History of Ideas
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Natural History
化学史研究 [Kagakushi kenkyū; Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry]
Publishers
Kluwer Academic
Brill
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Science
Physics
Science and religion
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Theology
People
Newton, Isaac
Clarke, Samuel
Whiston, William
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Bentley, Richard
Tikhomirov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Enlightenment
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Institutions
Cambridge University
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