Mr Whistons mistakes in his new theory, 3 April 1698
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [45]
Scope and Contents
A short critique of William Whiston's A New Theory of the Earth, from its Original to the Consummation of all Things, (1696) , intended to damn Cartesian astronomy and advance corollaries to Newtonian thought instead. He affirmed the truth of the flood narrative in Genesis, ascribing the deluge to the impact of a comet. Whiston had been converted to Newtonianism by a paper of David Gregory. At the foot of this document is an unrelated note, dated 6 Sept. 1708, to the effect that one Abbe Galleys has renewed a print attack on Gregory in the "Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences", regarding James Gregory and Isaac Barrow, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, who had published some in mathematics and optics.
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- 3 April 1698
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possible bibliographic reference: Whiston, William, A New Theory of the Earth, from its Original to the Consummation of all Things, (1696)
Kiki's number = 46
Kiki's number = 46
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Duncan Fisher 25 June 2001
- Astronomy
- Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677 (mathematician, classicist, and divine)
- Comets
- Flood, Biblical
- Galleys, Abbe, fl1707 (French mathematician)
- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford)
- Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh)
- Mathematics
- Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (mathematician and astronomer)
- Optics
- Professional Criticism
- Whiston, William, 1667-1752 (divine and natural philosopher)
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