Thursday, January 26, 2006
Newtonianism Spreads
New political culture
-Constitutional monarchy
-Parliament
--Whigs and Tories
--Jacobites, Radical Whigs, Radical Republicans
Latitudinarians
Royal Society of London
-Boyle Lectures: Richard Bentley, Samuel Clarke
Richard Bentley
--"The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism"
--"Holy alliance": Newtonian Science + Church of England
Samuel Clarke
--Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
John Theophilus Desaguliers
--Popularizing Newtonian science: Course of Experimental Philosophy
--Mechanical experiments
--Civil engineering
Francois-Marie Arouet or Voltaire (1694-1778)
--Letters Concerning the English Nation (1733) = Lettres Philosophiques (1734)
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