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Fallen Languages : Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660–1740 / Robert Markley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 3 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Physico-Theology: Dialogics, History, and Theory -- 1. "A Close (though Mystick) Connection": Boyle's Defense of the Bible -- 2. "Babel revers'd": Real Characters, Philosophical Languages, and Idealizations of Order -- 3. "Those Fabulous Chaldeans,: Boyle and the Crisis of Baconianism -- 4. "Ye true & real temple of God": Mathematics, History, and the Narrative Structures of Newton's Natural Philosophy -- 5. "The interposition of Omniscience": History, Method, and Aesthetics in Early Eighteenth-Century Newtonianism -- 6. Boyle "Epitomiz' d": The Reinscription of Science in Early Eighteenth-Century England -- Epilogue -- Index
Summary: According to Robert Markley, historians and philosophers of science who link the rise of science to the rise of modern, objective forms of writing are interpreting the works of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and their contemporaries far too narrowly. Focusing on the crises of representation in the discourse of physico-theology in English natural philosophy from 1660 to 1740, Markley demonstrates the crucial role played by theology in the development of modern science.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Physico-Theology: Dialogics, History, and Theory -- 1. "A Close (though Mystick) Connection": Boyle's Defense of the Bible -- 2. "Babel revers'd": Real Characters, Philosophical Languages, and Idealizations of Order -- 3. "Those Fabulous Chaldeans,: Boyle and the Crisis of Baconianism -- 4. "Ye true & real temple of God": Mathematics, History, and the Narrative Structures of Newton's Natural Philosophy -- 5. "The interposition of Omniscience": History, Method, and Aesthetics in Early Eighteenth-Century Newtonianism -- 6. Boyle "Epitomiz' d": The Reinscription of Science in Early Eighteenth-Century England -- Epilogue -- Index

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According to Robert Markley, historians and philosophers of science who link the rise of science to the rise of modern, objective forms of writing are interpreting the works of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and their contemporaries far too narrowly. Focusing on the crises of representation in the discourse of physico-theology in English natural philosophy from 1660 to 1740, Markley demonstrates the crucial role played by theology in the development of modern science.

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In English.

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