The Janus Faces of Genius
The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 29 May 1992
- ISBN 9780521380843
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 236x157x28 mm
- Weight 700 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A landmark study of the 'founder of modern science'.
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In this major re-evaluation of Isaac Newton's intellectual life, Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs shows how his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, and cosmology was intertwined with his study of alchemy. Directing attention to the religious ambience of the alchemical enterprise of early modern Europe, Dobbs argues that Newton understood alchemy - and the divine activity in micromatter to which it spoke - to be a much needed corrective to the overly mechanized system of Descartes. The same religious basis underlay the rest of his work. To Newton it seemed possible to obtain partial truths from many different approaches to knowledge, be it textual work aimed at the interpretation of prophecy, the study of ancient theology and philosophy, creative mathematics, or experiments with prisms, pendulums, vegetating minerals, light, or electricity. Newton's work was a constant attempt to bring these partial truths together, with the larger goal of restoring true natural philosophy and true religion.
"Dobbs is always in complete control of the highly diverse strands of her argument. A splendid achievement." R. Palter, Choice
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Isaac Newton, philosopher by fire; 2. Vegetability and providence; 3. Cosmology and history; 4. Modes of divine activity in the world: before the Principia; 5. Modes of divine activity in the world: the Principia period; 6. Modes of divine activity in the world: after the Principia, 1687-1713; 7. Modes of divine activity in the world: after the Principia, 1713-1727; 8. Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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