Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

John Brooke is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, Oxford University.Ian Maclean is Professor of Renaissance Studies, Oxford University, and Senior Research Fellow, All Souls.

• Introduction ; 1. Heterodoxy in Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Pietro Pomponazzi, Guglielmo Gratarolo, Girolamo Cardano ; 2. John Donne's Religion of Love ; 3. 'Le plus beau et le plus meschant esprit que ie aye cogneu': Science and Religion in the Writings of Giulio Cesare Vanini, 1585-1619 ; 4. Heresies, Facts, and the Travails of the Republic of Letters: Explanations of the Eucharist ; 5. Galileo Galilei and the Myth of Heterodoxy ; 6. Copernicanism, Jansenism, and Remonstrantism in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands ; 7. When did Pierre Gassendi become a Libertine? ; 8. Thomas Hobbes, Heresy, and Corporeal Deity ; 9. 'The true frame of Nature': Isaac Newton, Heresy, and the Reformation of Natural Philosophy ; 10. The Heterodox Career of Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ; 11. 'Claiming Him as her son': William Stukeley, Isaac Newton, and the Archaeology of the Trinity ; 12. Joining Natural Philosophy to Christianity: The Case of Joseph Priestley

...a rich...addition to our understanding of the ideas of its period.