Seventeenth Century Science and Religion: The State of the Argument

“Science, technology and society in seventeenth century England”, Osiris, iv (1938), 414–565, and reprinted as a book with a new introduction (New York, 1970).

The political theory of possessive individualism (Oxford, 1962).

“Harrington's ‘opportunity state’”, in Webster C. (ed.), The intellectual revolution of the seventeenth century (London, 1974), 23–53.

“Harrington, a realist?”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 54–61, pp. 61 and 55.

“Harrington, a realist: A rejoinder”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 62–66.

“The meaning of Harrington's agrarian”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 67–69.

Macpherson , op. cit. (ref. 2), ch. 3.

“The Levellers and democracy”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 70–78.

“Reconsidering the Levellers: The evidence of the ‘Moderate’”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 79–100.

See the essays by Thomas Keith and Aylmer G. E. in Webster , Intellectual revolution.

Howell and Brewster , “Reconsidering the Levellers”, 80.

“Science and religion in seventeenth century England”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 197–217.

“Puritanism and science: Problems of definition”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 254–61, p. 260.

“Puritanism, capitalism and the scientific revolution”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 218–42, p. 241.

“Puritanism, capitalism and the scientific revolution”, 253.

ibid., 240.

ibid., 260.

“Civil war politics, religion and the Royal Society”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 317–46.

For correctives see Rattansi P. , “Paracelsus and the puritan revolution”, Ambix, xi (1963), 24–32, and Jacob J. R. , “The ideological origins of Robert Boyle's natural philosophy”, Journal of European studies, ii (1972), 1–21.

“Latitudinarianism and science in seventeenth century England”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 286–316.

Jacob J. R. and Jacob M. C. , “Scientists and society: The saints preserved”, Journal of European studies, i (1971), 87–92.

“William Harvey and the idea of monarchy”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution , 160–81; “The decline and fall of Restoration science”, in ibid , 347–68; “The authorship and significance of ‘Macaria’”, in ibid., 369–85.

See also Webster Charles , “New light on the Invisible College: The social relations of science in the mid-seventeenth century”, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser., xxiv (1974), 19–42.

Manuel F. , The religion of Isaac Newton (Oxford, 1974), 9.

ibid., 30–31.

Jacob J. R. , “Restoration, reformation and the origins of the Royal Society”, History of science, xiii (1975), 155–76.

Manuel , op. cit. (ref. 24), 49.

Westfall R. S. , Science and religion in seventeenth century England (New Haven, 1958), and the articles, previously cited, by J. R. Jacob (refs 19, 21 and 26).

Quoted in Manuel, op. cit. (ref. 24), 122.

Hooykaas R. , Religion and the rise of modern science (Edinburgh, 1972), 136.

“Godly rule and English millenarianism”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution , 386–98, p. 391. Cf. Pocock J. G. A. , “Time, history and eschatology in the thought of Thomas Hobbes”, in Elliott J. H. and Koenigsberger H. G. (eds), The diversity of history (Ithaca, 1970), 149–98.

Manuel , op. cit. (ref. 24), 39.

Jacob M. C. and Lockwood W. A. , “Political millenarianism and Burnet's Sacred theory”, Science studies, ii (1972), 265–79; for Baxter, see “Richard Baxter, the Apocalypse and the mad major”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 399–426.

“The ‘civil polity’ of Peter Paxton”, in Webster , Intellectual revolution, 142–59.

Op. cit. (ref. 15), 251.

ibid., 252.

Quoted in Manuel, op. cit. (ref. 24), 123, from the Yahuda mss.

“Sir Isaac Newton and his society”, in Change and continuity in seventeenth century England (London, 1974), 251–77.

For examples of this tendency, see Jacob J. R. and Jacob M. C. , op. cit. (ref. 21).

Trengove Leonard , “Newton's theological views”, Annals of science, xxii (1966), 277–94; Kubrin David , “Newton and the cyclical cosmos: Providence and the mechanical philosophy”, Journal of the history of ideas, xxviii (1967), 325–46.

Quoted in Manuel, op. cit. (ref. 24), 109. See also the forthcoming book by Jacob M. C. , The Newtonians and the English revolution, 1689–1720 (Harvester Press, 1976).

The correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton, iii (Cambridge, 1961), 191. Memoranda by Gregory David , 28 December 1691.

Jacob M. C. , “The Church and the formulation of the Newtonian world-view”, Journal of European studies, i (1971), 128–48; and Guerlac Henry and Jacob M. C. , “Bentley, Newton and Providence”, Journal of the history of ideas, xxx (1969), 307–18.

Manuel, op. cit. (ref. 24), 36.