...would explain Newton's letter to Bentley in which he says : ' When I wrote my treatise [the Principia] about our system, I had an eye upon such principles...me more than to find it useful for that purpose.' That hope was found in Newton's suggestion of inert matter moved freely by immaterial principles by...

...his Boyle Lectures on Atheism. "When I wrote my Treatise about our system," Sir Isaac calmly avows, " I had an eye upon such Principles as might "work with...me more than to find it useful for that " Purpose." And the foregoneness of his conclusions is further made plain in a passage of the second letter : "You...

...ones, but in the order of nature the qualities of the large bodies depend on those of the particles. Treatise about our System, I had an Eye upon such...me more than to find it useful for that Purpose." 72 In the same letter, and elsewhere,73 he points out that given the complex structure of the solar...

...colleagues in the divinity of Christ, he kept his secret to himself and wrote his Principia with ' an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a deity'.1 The great historical scholars, almost to a man, were ecclesiastics — non-juring divines...

...from Newton in behalf of Christian theism, Newton wrote him with warm approval, weighing his words: "When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had...can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."6 When Leibniz later accused Newton of weakening the cause of natural religion with his cosmology,...

...Richard Bentley. CAMBRIDGE, Decemb. 10, 1692. SIE, WHEN I wrote my treatise about our système, 10 I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the beleife of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if...

...System I had an Eye upon such Principles as might work with considering Men, for the Belief of a Diety, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose." Newton carefully enumerated those parts of the system of the world which, in Newton's words, "I do...

...as Newton is concerned, we have his own word for this statement. In a letter to Bentley, he writes: "When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had...work with considering men for the belief of a Deity; . . ." 7 The concept in Newton's mind is that of a fully articulated system requiring a definite supernatural...

...years after the publication of his Principia, he wrote to Bentley that while composing the Principia ('my Treatise about our system'), 'I had an eye upon...work with considering Men, for the Belief of a Deity' (Newton, 1958, p. 280; 1959-1977, vol. 3, p. 233). About two decades later, in 1713, he declared in...

...Natural Philosophy], I had an eye on such principles as might work with considering men for the belief in a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. " There are many other such letters in Newton's correspondence. Newton's religious interests were the...