Abstract
Response to Comments on Priest of Nature
Highlights
Iliffe a few philosophically-oriented historians, or historically-informed philosophers, notably Alexandre Koyré and Ted McGuire, who focussed on what could broadly be called Newton’s metaphysical theology and his philosophy of science
The Yahuda papers in the Jewish and National University Library in Jerusalem, which contained the vast majority of his religious writings, were made available for study at the start of the 1970s, but the non-scientific papers only became widely accessible on microfilm in the early 1980s
Where I did point to consonances between his theological writings and other areas of his work, these were conclusions derived from evidence in the texts themselves, rather than assumptions derived from some crude a priori position that was lazily applied to the sources
Summary
Iliffe a few philosophically-oriented historians, or historically-informed philosophers, notably Alexandre Koyré and Ted McGuire, who focussed on what could broadly be called Newton’s metaphysical theology and his philosophy of science. I realized that Newton’s theological writings had to be related in a general sense to his work in natural philosophy, and decided that there were more obvious differences between them than there were connections.
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