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Science, Reason, and Religion in the Age of Newton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Geoffrey Holmes
Geoffrey Holmes
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University of Lancaster
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , July 1978 , pp. 164 - 171
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1978

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1 Over the period 1968–1976, for example: Shapiro, B. J., ‘Latitudinarianism and science in seventeenth-century England’, Past and present, 1968, 40CrossRefGoogle Scholar; John Wilkins, 1614–1672: an intellectual biography, Berkeley, 1969Google Scholar; Dahm, J. J., ‘Science and aplogetics in the early Boyle Lectures’, Church history, 1970, 39CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Austin, W. H., ‘Isaac Newton on science and religion’, Journal of the history of ideas, 1970, 31CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Jacob, J. R., ‘Robert Boyle and subversive religion in the early Restoration’, Albion, 1974, 6CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Manuel, F. E., The religion of Isaac Newton, Oxford, 1974Google Scholar; Redwood, J., Reason, ridicule and religion: the age of enlightenment in England, 1660–1750, London, 1976.Google Scholar

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6 Speck, , loc. cit. (5), pp. 144–5.Google Scholar The three turning-points were the cutting by half of the Land Tax (a burden largely evaded by the monied interest) in 1713, the much-reduced dependence of the government on loans once the wars were over, and the collapse of the South Sea Bubble.

7 Holmes, G.British politics in the age of Anne, London, 1967, pp. 28–30, 167–170, 172–4.Google Scholar

8 See, e.g., Holmes, G., ‘The Sacheverell riots: the crowd and the Church in early eighteenth-century London’, Past and present, 1976, 72, 61–4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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12 Evelyn considered his second lecture, 4 April 1692, ‘one of the most noble, learned, and convincing discourses that I had ever heard’; de Beer, E. S. (ed.), The diary of John Evelyn, Oxford, 1955, v, 94.Google Scholar See also ibid. p. 123.

13 Holmes, , Trial of Doctor Sacheverell, op. cit. (9), pp. 42–3.Google Scholar

14 Nicolson's diaries, the originals of which are in Tullie House, Carlisle, are being edited for publication by the reviewer and Mr Clyve Jones.

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17 Historical Manuscripts Commission, Bath MSS., i, 52–4: Robert Harley to Archbishop Tenison (draft), 11 August 1702.

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