 | William Carl Placher - Religion - 1983 - 332 pages
...explain the continuing order of the solar system.7 When he wrote his physics, he explained to a friend, "I had an eye upon such principles as might work with...can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."8 On the other hand, Newton found the Nicene Creed unintelligible and denied the full divinity... | |
 | J.D. North, J.J. Roche - History - 1985 - 484 pages
...World, London, 1668, The Publiser to the Reader, npn 59. Newton wrote to Bentley in December 1692: "When I wrote my treatise about our System I had an...Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity & nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it useful for that purpose". Newton,... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1985 - 270 pages
...Natural Philosophy] I had an eye on such principles as might work with considering men for the belief in a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose." Newton regarded the chief value of his scientific work to be the support of revealed religion. He was... | |
 | Charles E. Hummel - Religion - 1986 - 300 pages
..."evangelistic" concern, Newton believed he provided evidence. "When I wrote my treatise about our Systeme, I had 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."84 Newton... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers - Religion - 1986 - 538 pages
...of Newton's four replies began with the now famous words: "When I wrote my treatise upon our Systeme I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity and nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it usefull for that purpose."9 By way... | |
 | Reinhard Bendix - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 470 pages
...advice in preparing his argument. Newton wrote to Bentley: "When I wrote my treatise about our Systeme I had 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."27 As a... | |
 | Ruth Salvaggio - Classicism - 1988 - 192 pages
...allowed Richard Bentley to expound on the ways in which his mathematical principles, as Newton put it, "might work with considering Men, for the Belief of a Deity; and nothing," Newton went on, "can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose."40 And after the publication... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 348 pages
...certainly belong to natural philosophy."'1 In the first of his four letters to Dr. Bentley, he said, "When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had...can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."10 In his Opticks, likewise, he said, about Science, "Though every true Step made in this... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Philosophy - 1989 - 180 pages
...Newton saw his work as advancing the tradition of natural theology. He said he wrote the Principia with 'an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity.'8 And in endorsing the Design Argument, he said that discourse about God 'from the appearances... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...neue Naturphilosophie war zunächst keineswegs vom Atheismus geprägt, wie Newton selbst gesagt natte: "When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such principles äs might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than... | |
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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, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. 
