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The Uses of antiquity : the scientific revolution and the classical tradition

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eBook, English, ©1991
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ©1991
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Copernicus, Apollo, and Herakles.- Religion and the Failures of Determinism.- The Paradox of Power: Hobbes and Stoic Naturalism.- Cudworth and Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness.- The Neoplatonic Conception of Nature in More, Cudworth, and Berkeley.- The Ancient Legal Sources of Seventeenth-Century Probability.- Robert Hooke, Physico-Mythology, Knowledge of the World of the Ancients and Knowledge of the Ancient World.- ‘The Wisdom of the Egyptians’ and the Secularisation of History in the Age of Newton.- On Newtonian History.- Notes on Contributors.- Index of Mythical and Historical Figures.