...Alessio Mattana This essay examines the myth of Isaac Newton's modesty in eighteenth‐century Britain. By analyzing both primary sources by and on Newton and scholarship on the concept of “modest witnessing,” this essay argues that a number of actors concerned with Newton's public relevance...

... that they may always bring me a letter from you” (2:622, see also 1:449, to John Newton). Such expectations, though, might be frustrated. “If I know when to expect a letter,” Cowper continues, 154 Eighteenth-Century Life I know likewise when to enquire after a letter, if it happens not to come...

... was the formal means to Enlightenment’s end: comprehensive knowledge of a world that could be known” (165). In the few pages of his essay, Siskin points to a geographically inflected intellectual history of British Enlightenment and Romanticism, starting with Newton, starting...

... they went and struck the pendant and carried it clear o Noticing that a dispute over a patch of ground also involves interpretations of the symbols and symbolic actions of the two groups involved, I shall argue that Descartes’s, Newton’s, and Locke’s ideas...

... Theodore Newton informs us that Pittis convivially associated with men like Tom Brown, Ned Ward, and Thomas D’Urfey, 94 Eighteenth-Century Life moving in a distinctly Tory circle (unlike Swift, at this stage). He is given the dubious honor of a chapter in Dunton’s 1706 Whipping Post, in which...

... 1830 (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia, 2017). Pp. 256. $45 Over seventy years ago, Marjorie Hope Nicolson s Newton Demands the Muse: Newton s Opticks and the Eighteenth- Century Poets (1946) founded a tradition of literary criticism that was informed by the history of science and studies...

... of corpuscular interiority is not direct or sensed, but produced in conversation and in relation with others. Empiricism, for Thompson, mediates identity and denomination through relation and encounter. In chapter 4, Race and the Corpuscle, Thompson asks a question important to Boyle and Newton: Are bodies...

.... Melville challenged Newton’s theories; Wilson improved telescope sights, made excellent thermometers, barometers, and a hygrometer long used in industry, and invented (with Melville) a clock with a novel escape- ment. Wilson appears in the book as a typefounder but not as an innovator in technology...

... philology, numerology, and history, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century scholars, theologians, and scientists such as Thomas Brightman, Isaac Newton, and Joseph Priestley attempted to unlock the mysteries of divine prophecy.15 By definition, this tradition of biblical exegesis excluded most women...

.... ISBN 0-87413-672- 5 Newton, Isaac. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, a new translation by I. Bernard Gordon & Anne Whitman, assisted by Julia Budenz, preceded by A Guide to Newton’s “Principia,” by I. Bernard Cohen (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1999). Pp...

... of motion articulated by Newton and his popularizers were an insight into the Prime Mover’s grand design, and second, that the creator had intended humankind to take pleasure in creation—it made sense that spatial motion should inspire a powerful response in human beings. In Spectator 412 (1712...

... Martins, eds. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2005). Pp. 279. $25. ISBN 0-226-16472-1 Englund, Steven. Napoleon: A Political Life (New York: Scribner, 2004). Pp. 575. $35. ISBN 0-684-87142-4 Fara, Patricia. Newton: The Making of Genius (New York: Columbia...

...), 176  –  ­95; Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment (London: Allen and Unwin, 1981), 29  –  ­108; Charles Webster, From Paracelsus to Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1982); and Brian Vickers, “Analogy versus Identity: The Rejection of Occult Symbolism, 1580  –  ­1680,” Occult...

... edition, 1748) and Thomas Newton’s edition of Paradise Regain’d in 1752. Though lacking the poetry and descriptiveness of Milton’s great epic, the poem for Newton is “argumentative” and may well be “supe- rior in sentiment”; the “great beauty” of the poem “is the contrast between Reading Milton...

... are quoted in the Dictionary, and Johnson was once thought to be the editor of Bentley’s correspondence with Newton.) Johnson’s disapproving observations on Milton’s prosody in The Rambler as well as those on the excessive metaphors of the Metaphysicals in the Life of Cowley seem directly related...

... that this edition of The Seasons, including the “Hymn,” A Poem Sacred to the Memory of  Sir Isaac Newton, and “An Essay on Descriptive Poetry” (the latter of which was not published), “is proposed to be printed in one Volume in Quarto, on a Superfine Royal Paper, and with Copper-Plates adapted...

... of Newton as “The marble index of a mind,”6 while Lamb dissociates marble from life in his elegy “On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born”: 106 Limbs so fair, they might supply (Themselves now but cold imagery) The sculptor to make beauty by.7 and Keats...

... Changing His Religion Considered in a Dialogue between Crites, Eugenius, and Mr. Bays (London: S. T., 1688), 5. 14.  John Newton, An Introduction to the Art of Rhetorick (London: E. T. and R. H. 1671), 84, and Thomas Hobbes, The Art of Rhetoric (London: William Crooke, 1681), 155. 15...

... and 1794, shortly after Stuart’s untimely death; they were adapted by Stuart’s wife and his colleague William Newton from the notori- ously careless manuscripts Stuart had left behind.2 Revett seems to have lost immediate interest in the project and was bought out after Stuart’s death, mov- ing...

... stood with respect to Pope, but also within the long arc of Augustan verse. Seward’s own role as mediator might be pursued through the beadroll of poets she mentored or patronized (not always happily): Henry Francis Cary, William Bagshaw Stevens, William Newton, Samuel Jackson Pratt, John Sar...