...their laudable attempts to discover the true nature of the works of God';44 or of Isaac Newton, who 'had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief in the deity'.45 The telescope and microscope enhanced people's wonder at the beauty and design of...

...writing the Principia: When I wrote my treatise [Principia] about our [solar] system, I had an eye on 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. (Newton's Philosophy of Nature,...

...busy preparing the first set of Boyle lectures in 1692, "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."41 Like...

...book, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: "When I wrote my treatise about our system, 1 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." Newton, "God and Gravity," 46....

...report. — Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey, 1957 When I first 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. — Isaac Newton, Principia, 1687...

...Bendey 's Boyle Lectures (the first ever delivered) that "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 useful for that purpose."5 Bendey's...

...his "system of the world" the workings of the Almighty: "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."17 Newton...

...colleague Richard Bentley, we see Newton's enthusiasm: "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." There is no doubting Newton's...

...sentence in a letter from Newton to Richard Bentley: "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" (PR, 93). 6. See David Ray Griffin, God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern...

...mit R. Bentley wies Newton ausdrücklich daraufhin, dass er die Principia geschrieben habe „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". TURNBULL,...