Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The 'Holy Alliance' in Gestation, 1660–88: 1. Restoration, religion and reaction; 2. Cambridge and the latitude-men; 3. Restoration Cambridge and the 'new philosophy'; Part II. The 'Holy Alliance' Proclaimed, 1689–1768: 4. The creation and consolidation of whig Cambridge; 5. The clash of creeds; 6. Newtonian natural philosophy established; Part III. The 'Holy Alliance' Questioned, 1769–1800: 7. The eclipse of whig Cambridge; 8. The revival of revealed theology; 9. Mathematics ascendant; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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This book traces the relationship between Anglicanism and science in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge.