Rethinking the scientific revolution / edited by Margaret J. Osler.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The canonical imperative : rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler -- Newton as final cause and first mover / B.J.T. Dobbs -- The Scientific Revolution reasserted / Richard S. Westfall -- The role of religion in the Lutheran response to Copernicus / Peter Barker -- Catholic natural philosophy : alchemy and the revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby / Bruce Janacek -- Vital spirits : redemption, artisanship, and the new philosophy in early modern Europe / Pamela H. Smith -- "The terriblest eclipse that hath been seen in our days" : Black Monday and the debate on astrology during the Interregnum / William E. Burns -- Arguing about nothing : Henry More and Robert Boyle on the theological implications of the void / Jane E. Jenkins -- Pursuing knowledge : Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton / Jan W. Wojcik -- The alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton : alternate approaches and divergent deployments / Lawrence M. Principe -- The Janus faces of science in the seventeenth century : Athanasius Kircher and Isaac Newton / Paula Findlen -- The nature of Newton's "Holy Alliance" between science and religion : from the scientific revolution to Newton (and back again) / James E. Force -- The fate of the date : the theology of Newtons' Principia revisited / J.E. McGuire -- Newton and Spinoza and the Bible scholarship of the day / Richard H. Popkin -- The truth of Newton's science and the truth of science's history : heroic science at its eighteenth-century formulation / Margaret C. Jacob.

Includes bibliographical references and index.