Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginnings of a new picture of Newton has emerged. This volume of essays builds upon the foundation of its authors in their previous works and extends and elaborates the emerging picture of the `new' Newton, the great synthesizer of science and religion as revealed in his intellectual context.

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Essay 1 / Alchemy and Eschatology: Exploring the Connections between John Dee and Isaac Newton.- Essay 2 / Newton and the Rosicrucian Enlightenment.- Essay 3 / From Paracelsus to Newton: The Word of God, the Book of Nature, and the Eclipse of the Emblematic World View.- Essay 4 / Acceptable to inquisitive men: Some Simonian Contexts for Newton's Biblical Criticism, 16801692.- Essay 5 / Those Whose Business It Is To Cavill: Newton's Anti-Catholicism.- Essay 6 / Newton, Corruption, and the Tradition of Universal History.- Essay 7 / Newton's Of the Church: Its Contents and Implications.- Essay 8 / The Seven Trumpets and the Seven Vials: Apocalypticism and Christology in Newton's Theological Writings.- Essay 9 / Interpretive Strategies in Newton's Theologiae gentilis origines philosophiae.- Essay 10 / Newton's Apocalypse.- Essay 11 / Newton and the Guaranteeing God.- Essay 12 / Newton, the Ancients,and the Moderns.- Essay 13 / The Logic of Millennial Thought: Sir Isaac Newton Among His Contemporaries.