Isaac Newton'sChronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically ...revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt's by a millennium.Newton and the Origin of Civilizationtells the story of how one of the most celebrated figures in the history of mathematics, optics, and mechanics came to apply his unique ways of thinking to problems of history, theology, and mythology, and of how his radical ideas produced an uproar that reverberated in Europe's learned circles throughout the eighteenth century and beyond.
Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold reveal the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics. It was during Newton's earliest years at Cambridge that he developed the core of his singular method for generating and working with trustworthy knowledge, which he applied to his study of the past with the same rigor he brought to his work in physics and mathematics. Drawing extensively on Newton's unpublished papers and a host of other primary sources, Buchwald and Feingold reconcile Isaac Newton the rational scientist with Newton the natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian, and chronologist of ancient history.
This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe, from Italy to England, and from Poland to ...Portugal.
The first translation of the Koran into English appeared in 1649, the first year of the Commonwealth. The political and religious significance of the publication was then and remains contested. In ...this essay, Mordechai Feingold traces the history of the translation's appearance, describing the personages and motivations involved with the publication and its reception. Arguing that Thomas Ross is the likeliest editor, he challenges an alternative identification of those responsible for the translation and paratexts. Feingold surveys the critical reception of the edition, which appears to have been partisan rather than principled, and concludes with a description of rival editions proposed by contemporary Arabists.
Isaac Newton, A Radical Whig? Feingold, Mordechai
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Feingold examines mathematician Isaac Newton as a radical Whig. Newton's credentials as a staunch Whig have been taken for granted at least since 1848 when Macaulay hailed him as "the glory of the ...Whig party". Newton's defiant stance during the Alban Francis affair, when he defended liberty and Protestantism against the dispensing power of James II--a stand that earned him a place in the Cambridge delegation summoned to appear before Lord Chancellor George Jeffreys--purportedly showed him to be a resolute opponent of the monarch's policies long before the Revolution of 1688.
Early Modern Universities Goeing, Anja-Silvia; Parry, Glyn; Feingold, Mordechai
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Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Education contains twenty essays by experts on early modern academic networks. Using a variety of approaches to universities, schools, and academies ...throughout Europe and in Central America, the book suggests pathways for future research.
A historic lawgiver and founder of an ancient nation, Moses was powerful and pivotal in the imagination of modern Germany. The late eighteenth to early twentieth century was an intense period of ...religious controversy, especially on 'the Jewish question', with new models for understanding faith, science, and the past. This volume focuses on the identification of Jewish law, both Pentateuch and Talmud, with the figure of Moses to trace the fascinations and anxieties of the Bible in modern culture. Through diverse perspectives, it examines the representations and appropriations of Moses as a father of Judaism and framer of European civilization.
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how, when, where and why Newton's Principia was interpreted by readers in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, England and Ireland. University textbooks ...and popular simplified vernacular texts created new audiences for early modern science.
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