...exchange rather than a transcendent ideal. In his Letter to Richard Bentley, Newton says of the Principia, "When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had...with considering Men, for the Belief of a Deity." 18 The implicitly selective nature of Newton's "Principles" suggests that mathematics is not an end...

...Principia in such a forum: "When I wrote my treatise about our system," Newton opens his first letter, "I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity" (Thayer 1974, 46). The key phrase, one that echoes throughout the exchange of letters, is "contrivance...

...neue Naturphilosophie war zunächst keineswegs vom Atheismus geprägt, wie Newton selbst gesagt natte: "When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such principles äs might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than...

...laws, and the formulae for them; they learn less often that Newton said, when he wrote his Principia. "I had an eye upon such principles as might work with...rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose" (Thayer 1953, p. 46). They also learn that Boyle formulated the important law connecting pressure and...

...quite essential to remind ourselves that Newton's physics was only a part of his project, and that he "had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity," as he confesses in his first letter to Bentley. Newton, Boyle, and indeed most English scientists of...

...correspondence with Richard Bentley with the famous words, as solemn as they are appropriate: "When 1 wrote our Treatise about our System, I had an Eye upon such...rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose' (Cohen 1958: 280). It was no more outrageous for a philosopher to maintain that the omnipresent divine...

...proponents of an astronomy-based natural theology. "When I wrote my treatise upon our Systeme [sic] I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe [sic] of a Deity and nothing can rejoyce [sic] me more than to find it usefull [sic] for that...

...natural philosophy in his time. In 1692 Newton had told Richard Bentley that he had labored to establish "such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity"6; a hundred years later, while there were many scientists who were Christians, their discoveries...

...principles? As Newton later explained to Richard Bentley (1692), he wrote the Principia Mathematica with 'an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men, for the belief of a Deity'.412 In the context of his concern to refute atheism, Newton followed More's strategy of postulating...

...1692 lecture, and Newton had obligingly replied, pointing out that he had composed Principia "with an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity & nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it usefull for that purpose." 1 Several...