 | Gordon Johnson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 32 pages
...See also Monk, Bentley, n, pp. lj6ff. 10 Monk, Bentley, 1, pp. 2 5 if. 1 1 Newton informed Bentley: 'When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had...me more than to find it useful for that purpose.' Quoted in Monk, Bentley, 1 , p. 44. 12 Monk, Bentley, 1, p. 74. An equally free hand was given to Geoffrey... | |
 | Frank T. Boyle - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...vapors in a monstrously rational machine. Newton opens his correspondence with Bentley by observing: "When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had...rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose" (Papers and Letters, 280). Elsewhere in the correspondence he indicates he is specifically aware that... | |
 | W.L. Craig, William Lane Craig - Philosophy - 2000 - 276 pages
...development" after the first edition.27 In fact, on 10 December 1692, Newton confided to Richard Bentley, "When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had...can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."28 Similarly, in the Latin edition of the Opticks (1706), Newton declares space to be "the... | |
 | William Lane Craig - Philosophy - 2001 - 300 pages
...10 December 1692, Newton confided to Richard Bentley, "When 1 wrote my Treatise about our System. l had an Eye upon such Principles as might work with...can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."21 Similarly, in the Latin edition of the Opticks (1706l, Newton declares space to be "the... | |
 | Margaret J. Osler - Science - 2000 - 350 pages
...unity of God's truth. It is this sensibility that informs his statement to Richard Bentley in 1692: "When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had...might work with considering Men, for the belief of a Deity."87 86 On Galileo, see James J. Bono, The Language of God and the Languages of Man: Interpreting... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Education - 2000 - 474 pages
...interplay of science and metaphysics. Newton, as has been previously mentioned, wrote his Principia "with an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity" (Thayer and Randall, l953, p. 46). In the General Scholium added to the second edition of the Principia,... | |
 | Philip Kitcher - Science - 2001 - 240 pages
...theme, and Newton's theological justification of his physics in a letter to Richard Bentley is typical: "When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had...can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."3 Similar ideas of a divine lawmaker whose statutes, once revealed, will inspire our admiration,... | |
 | William Lane Craig - Philosophy - 2001 - 338 pages
...development" after the first edition.10 In fact, on l0 December l692, Newton confided to Richard Bentley, "When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had...can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."11 Similarly, in the Latin edition of the Opticks (l706), Newton declares space to be "the... | |
 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - Science - 2001 - 604 pages
...writing the Principia: When I wrote my treatise [Principia] about our [solar] system, I had an eye on such principles as might work with considering men...rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. (Newton's Philosophy of Nature, edited by HS Thayer) Consider another persistent "nonrational" trend... | |
 | H.A. David, A.W.F. Edwards - Mathematics - 2001 - 280 pages
...reply, dated December 10, 1692, opens "Sir, When I wrote my treatise about our system [Principia, 1687], I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity. . . ." Later in the letter Newton writes: To your second query, I answer, that the motions which the... | |
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When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. 
