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Sprat Thomas , History of the Royal Society, ed. Cope Jones (St Louis, 1958). 38.

Boyle Robert , Works, ed. Birch T. (London, 1744), v, 685.

Ibid., 46.

Ibid., 53.

Ibid., iii, 411.

Ibid., v, 758f.

Ibid., 776.

Ibid., iv, 362–73.

Burnet Thomas , The sacred theory of the earth (London, 1684), 106f.

Newton Isaac , Opticks (Dover edn, London, 1952), 397–404.

Clarke Samuel , Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God, 4th edn (London, 1716), i, 23 and ii, 17.

Whiston William , Astronomical principles of religion, natural and revealed (London, 1717), 45f.

MacLaurin Colin , An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries (London, 1748), 387–9.

Westfall R. S. , Science and religion in seventeenth-century England (New Haven, 1958), 25.

Ibid., 219.

Oakley F. , “Christian theology and the Newtonian science”, Church history, xxx (1961), 433–57; McGuire J. E. , “Force, active principles, and Newton's invisible realm”, Ambix, xv (1968), 154–208; idem, “Boyle's conception of nature”. Journal of the history of ideas, xxxiii (1972), 523–42. On Burnet, see McGuire , “Force, active principles”, 188f.

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Manuel F. E. , The religion of Isaac Newton (Oxford, 1974), 35.

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Quoted in Holmes G. , The trial of Doctor Sacheverell (London, 1973), 26n.

Rattansi P. M. , “The social interpretation of science in the seventeenth century”, in Mathias P. (ed.), Science and society 1600–1900 (Cambridge, 1972), 1–32. See also Jacob J. R. , “The ideological origins of Robert Boyle's natural philosophy”, Journal of European studies, ii (1972), 1–21.

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