caa a22 4500 388088419 CHVBK 20180307125239.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3170039 doi S0009640700102471 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3170039 English John C. emeritus professor of history at Baker University. John Hutchinson's Critique of Newtonian Heterodoxy [Elektronische Daten] [John C. English] "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be!—and all was light,” according to Alexander Pope. Other British subjects were not so sure. In recent years, historians have begun to take more seriously the persons who opposed Newton on either philosophical, scientific or theological grounds. Rival systems of natural philosophy were already in the field, including the scholastic, the alchemical, and especially the Cartesian. Newton had learned a great deal from Descartes, but he also set out to correct the errors in his system. Many Cartesians, at least in the period shortly after 1687, were not convinced by Newton's arguments. His methodology was suspect as well. The mathematics that Newton had invented was hard to follow and the role that it played in his system was unfamiliar. Political antipathies sometimes led to the rejection of Newtonianism. But the crux of the problem was theological. Newton's natural philosophy, as stated in his Principia Mathematica, seemed to undermine the traditional doctrines of the Christian religion. Copyright © American Society of Church History 1999 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/3(1999-09), 581-597 0009-6407 68:3<581 1999 68 CHH https://doi.org/10.2307/3170039 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3170039 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- English John C. emeritus professor of history at Baker University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/3(1999-09), 581-597 0009-6407 68:3<581 1999 68 CHH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge