Table of Contents:
  • Historical anthropology of John Locke / W.G. Batz
  • Voluntarism and immanence: conceptions of nature in eighteenth-century thought / P.M. Heimann
  • Theological voluntarism and biological analogies in Newton's physical thought / Henry Guerlac
  • Voltaire vs. Needham: atheism, materialism and the generation of life / Shirley A. Roe
  • Biology and society in the age of enlightenment / Francesca Rigotti
  • Hysteria and mechanical man / John P. Wright
  • From Homme Machine to Homme Sensible: changing eighteenth-century models of man's image / Sergio Moravia
  • Millenarianism and science in the late seventeenth century / Margaret C. Jacob
  • Physics and metaphysics in Newton, Leibniz and Clarke / Margula R. Perl
  • Samuel Clarke, Newtonianism and the factions of post-revolutionary England / Larry Stewart.