| Morris Kline - 1982 - 380 pages
...comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being governs all things, not as the Soul of the world, but as Lord over all. . . . Newton was convinced, too, that God was a skilled mathematician and physicist. He said in a letter... | |
| Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 pages
...comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being governs all things, not as the soul of...of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God, iravroKpaTatp, or Universal Ruler; for God is a relative word, and has a respect to servants; and Deity... | |
| Charles E. Hummel - 1986 - 300 pages
...comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being governs all things, not as the soul of...account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God.22 The second sentence is particularly significant. Newton's God was no deist "watchmaker," no... | |
| Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - 1988 - 406 pages
...purporting to prove that an intelligent and powerful Being exists and governs the world, Newton asserted. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of...but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion is wont to be called Lord God, or Universal Ruler; for God is a relative word, and as respects to servants;... | |
| Ruth Salvaggio - 1988 - 192 pages
...checkmated; in the game of domination, all is reduced to slavery, including the body. MICHEL SERRES This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all ... and Deity is the dominion of God not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of... | |
| W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 pages
...God is the soul of the world, even though Newton plainly said the precise opposite. God, Newton said, "governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all": in fact, he dismissed the claim that God is the soul of the world as the work of fancy (see his "General... | |
| Michael R. Matthews - 1989 - 180 pages
...their gravity, fall on each other, he hath placed those systems at immense distances from one another. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but 1. Dr. Pocock derives the Latin word Drus from the Arabic du (in the oblique case di), which signifies... | |
| J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin - 1990 - 244 pages
...intelligent and powerful Being exists who first created and now continues to govern the world, Newton says: This Being governs all things, not as the soul of...but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion is wont to be called Lord God .... or Universal Ruler, for God is a relative word, and has a respect... | |
| Richard Henry Popkin - 1992 - 394 pages
...purporting to prove that an intelligent and powerful Being exists and governs the world, Newton asserted: "This Being governs all things, not as the soul of...but as Lord over all, and on account of his dominion is wont to be called Lord God, or Universal Ruler , for God is a relative word, and as respects to... | |
| Richard S. Westfall - 1994 - 356 pages
...comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being governs all things, not as the soul of...of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God, JiavtoxoaTOOO or Universal Ruler; for God is a relative word, and has a respect to servants; and Deity... | |
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