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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Markley, Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Markley, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 3 b&w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

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