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    • CHAPTER 4

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    FROM “SIGNS AND WONDERS” TO LAW IN THE HEAVENS

  • I The Theological View
    — Early beliefs as to comets, meteors, and eclipses
    — Their inheritance by Jews and Christians
    — The belief regarding comets especially harmful as a source of superstitious terror
    — Its transmission through the Middle Ages
    — Its culmination under Pope Calixtus III
    — Beginnings of scepticism
    — Coperuicus, Paracelsus, Scaliger
    — Firmness of theologians, Catholic and Protestant, in its support

  • II Theological Efforts to crush the Scientific View
    — The effort through the universities.
    — The effort through the pulpits
    — Heerbrand at Tubingen and Dieterich at Marburg
    — Maestlin at Heidelberg
    — Buttner, Vossius, Torreblanca, Fromundus
    — Father Augustin de Angelis at Rome
    — Reinzer at Linz
    — Celichius at Magdeburg
    — Conrad Dieterich’s sermon at Ulm
    — Erni and others in Switzerland
    — Comet doggerel
    — Echoes from New England
    — Danforth, Morton, Increase Mather

  • III The Invasion of Scepticism
    — Rationalism of Cotton Mather, and its cause
    — Blaise de Vigenere
    — Erastus
    — Bekker, Lubienitzky, Pierre Petit
    — Bayle
    — Fontenelle
    — The scientific movement beneath all this

  • IV Theological Efforts at Compromise
    — The Final Victory of Science.
    — The admission that some comets are supralunar
    — Difference between scientific and theological reasoning
    — Development of the reasoning of Tycho and Kepler
    — Cassini,
    — Hevel, Doerfel, Bernouilli, Newton
    — Completion of the victory by Halley and Clairaut
    — Survivals of the superstition
    — Joseph de Maistre, Forster
    — Arago’s statistics
    — The theories of Whiston and Burnet, and their influence in
    — Germany
    — The superstition ended in America by the lectures of Winthrop
    — Helpful influence of John Wesley
    — Effects of the victory

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