An accompt of two books. I. Tracts, written by R. Boyle Esquire, containing new experiments touching the relation betwixt flame and air, and about explosions: An hydrostatical discourse, occasioned by some objections of Dr. Henry More, &c; To which is annex't an hysrostatical letter, about a way of weighing water in water; of the air's spring on bodies under water; and about the differing pressure of heavy solids and fluids. In which accompt is occasionally inserted the publisher's reply to Mr

1673 ◽  
Vol 8 (92) ◽  
pp. 5197-5206
Keyword(s):  
Ars Nova ◽  
Henry More

An accompt of two books. I. Tracts, written by R. Boyle Esquire, containing new experiments touching the relation betwixt flame and air, and about explosions: An hydrostatical discourse, occasioned by some objections of Dr. Henry More, &c; To which is annex’t an hysrostatical letter, about a way of weighing water in water; of the air's spring on bodies under water; and about the differing pressure of heavy solids and fluids. In which accompt is occasionally inserted the publisher's reply to Mr. George Sinclair's paper, called a vindication of the preface of his Ars Nova & Magna Gravitatis & Levitatis. II. Experienze intorno à diverse cose naturali, fatte da Francesco Redi. In the first of the Tracts, which contains the <italic>New Experiments</italic> about the <italic>Relation betwixt Flame</italic> and <italic>Air</italic>, the Noble Author, after he had mentioned some of the chief difficulties, both in <italic>making</italic> and <italic>judging</italic> of these Experiments, and occurred also to some thoughts, that might arise in the Reader, about his not ascribing in these Narratives so absolute and equal a necessity of the <italic>Air</italic> to the production and conservation of all <italic>Flames</italic>, as divers Men have concluded from his former Experiments; after this, <italic>Isay</italic>, he divides this Discourse into three parts.

Henry More, S.J., 1586 - 1661

Moreana ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (Number 75-7 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Francis Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Henry More

Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Pennington
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Baruch Spinoza ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Intellectual Milieu ◽  
Henry More ◽  
Central Belief

The Quakers were by far the most successful of the radical religious groups to emerge from the turbulence of the mid-seventeenth century—and their survival into the present day was largely facilitated by the transformation of the movement during its first fifty years. What began as a loose network of charismatic travelling preachers was, by the start of the eighteenth century, a well-organized and international religious machine. This shift is usually explained in terms of a desire to avoid persecution, but Quakers, Christ and the Enlightenment argues instead for the importance of theological factors as the major impetus for change. In the first sustained account of the theological motivations guiding the development of seventeenth-century Quakerism, the volume explores the Quakers’ positive intellectual engagement with those outside the movement to offer a significant reassessment of the causal factors determining the development of early Quakerism. Tracing the Quakers’ engagement with such luminaries as Baruch Spinoza, Henry More, John Locke, and John Norris, the volume unveils the Quakers’ concerted attempts to bolster their theological reputation through the refinement of their central belief in the ‘inward Christ’, or ‘the Light within’. In doing so, the study challenges persistent stereotypes of early modern radicalism as anti-intellectual and ill-educated—and indeed, as defined either by ‘rationalist’ or ‘spiritualist’ excess. Rather, the theological concerns of the Quakers and their interlocutors point to a crisis of Christology weaving through the intellectual milieu of the seventeenth century, which has long been underestimated as significant fuel for the emerging Enlightenment

Henry More and William Petty: Revisiting an Early Modern Polemic

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihnea Dobre
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Henry More ◽  
Epistolary Exchange

Abstract This paper explores an overlooked aspect of the brief but intense correspondence between William Petty and Henry More, making use of the Hartlib Papers Online. Traditionally, the brief epistolary exchange between More and Petty has been seen in the light of an opposition between Cartesian rationalism and Baconian empiricism. A look at the original manuscripts, however, shows that the opposition was not originally framed in those terms at all. This article draws attention to the actors’ original categories, and places this exchange in the evolving landscape of seventeenth-century natural philosophy.

Newton and Cambridge Platonism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Significant Part ◽  
Infinite Space ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Ralph Cudworth ◽  
Cambridge Platonism ◽  
Henry More ◽  
The University ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Cambridge Platonists

This article discusses Isaac Newton’s relations with two older colleagues at the University of Cambridge, Ralph Cudworth and Henry More, two of the so-called Cambridge Platonists,. It shows that there are biographical links between them, especially between More and Newton. Despite differences in theological outlook (e.g. on the Trinity), they shared intellectual interests and scholarly approach. All three were critical of Descartes, and More, like Newton, posited infinite space. In addition, there were parallels in their investigations of biblical prophecy—thanks to their debt to the Cambridge Bible scholar Joseph Mede. Newton drew on Cudworth and, like More, examined the texts of the Kabbala denudata. It is argued here that, although Newton differed from them in his conclusions, More and Cudworth were a significant part of Newton’s intellectual background.

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