...with the famous words, as solemn as they are appropriate: "When 1 wrote our Treatise about our System, I had an Eye upon such Principles as might work with...rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose' (Cohen 1958: 280). It was no more outrageous for a philosopher to maintain that the omnipresent divine...

...proponents of an astronomy-based natural theology. "When I wrote my treatise upon our Systeme [sic] I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe [sic] of a Deity and nothing can rejoyce [sic] me more than to find it usefull [sic] for that...

...natural philosophy in his time. In 1692 Newton had told Richard Bentley that he had labored to establish "such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity"6; a hundred years later, while there were many scientists who were Christians, their discoveries...

...principles? As Newton later explained to Richard Bentley (1692), he wrote the Principia Mathematica with 'an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men, for the belief of a Deity'.412 In the context of his concern to refute atheism, Newton followed More's strategy of postulating...

...1692 lecture, and Newton had obligingly replied, pointing out that he had composed Principia "with an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity & nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it usefull for that purpose." 1 Several...

...Monk, Bentley, 1, pp. 2 5 if. 1 1 Newton informed Bentley: 'When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with...me more than to find it useful for that purpose.' Quoted in Monk, Bentley, 1 , p. 44. 12 Monk, Bentley, 1, p. 74. An equally free hand was given to Geoffrey...

...Newton opens his correspondence with Bentley by observing: "When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with...rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose" (Papers and Letters, 280). Elsewhere in the correspondence he indicates he is specifically aware that...

...on 10 December 1692, Newton confided to Richard Bentley, "When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had an Eye upon such Principles as might work with...can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."28 Similarly, in the Latin edition of the Opticks (1706), Newton declares space to be "the...

...10 December 1692, Newton confided to Richard Bentley, "When 1 wrote my Treatise about our System. l had an Eye upon such Principles as might work with...can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."21 Similarly, in the Latin edition of the Opticks (1706l, Newton declares space to be "the...

...that informs his statement to Richard Bentley in 1692: "When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering Men, for the belief of a Deity."87 86 On Galileo, see James J. Bono, The Language of God and the Languages of Man: Interpreting...