...10 December 1692, Newton confided to Richard Bentley, "When 1 wrote my Treatise about our System. l 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."21 Similarly, in the Latin edition...

...10 December 1692, Newton confided 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, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."28 Similarly, in the Latin edition...

...interplay of science and metaphysics. Newton, as has been previously mentioned, wrote his Principia "with an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity" (Thayer and Randall, l953, p. 46). In the General Scholium added to the second edition of the Principia,...

...that informs his statement to Richard Bentley in 1692: "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."87 86 On Galileo, see James J. Bono, The Language of God and the Languages of Man: Interpreting...

...a letter to Richard Bentley, in an oft-quoted passage: When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for belief in Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. (Thayer NPN,...

...l0 December l692, Newton confided 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, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."11 Similarly, in the Latin edition...

...his physics in a letter to Richard Bentley is typical: "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."3 Similar ideas of a divine lawmaker...

...dated December 10, 1692, opens "Sir, When I wrote my treatise about our system [Principia, 1687], I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity. . . ." Later in the letter Newton writes: To your second query, I answer, that the motions which the...

...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,...