Gaukroger S. (ed.) The Uses of Antiquity: The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tradition

Springer, 1991. — 259 p.Antiquity was conceived of, put to use, and reassessed in various ways in natural philosophy and what might broadly be termed metaphysics in the period between Copernicus and Newton. The papers in this collection deal with questions about the symbolic and polemical uses of antiquity, with antiquity as a fund of ideas or as a source of evidence, and above all with the ways in which an image of antiquity was constructed and put to use in contemporary debates.Introduction: The Idea of Antiquity (by Stephen Gaukroger).
Copernicus, Apollo, and Herakles (by Keith Hutchison).
Religion and the Failures of Determinism (by John Sutton).
The Paradox of Power: Hobbes and Stoic Naturalism (by Jamie C. Kassler).
Cudworth and Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness (by Udo Thiel).
The Neoplatonic Conception of Nature in More, Cudworth, and Berkeley (by Alexander Jacob).
The Ancient Legal Sources of Seventeenth-Century Probability (by James Franklin).
Robert Hooke, Physico-Mythology, Knowledge of the World of the Ancients and Knowledge of the Ancient World (by Kirsten Birkett and David Oldroyd).
'The Wisdom of the Egyptians' and the Secularisation of History in the Age of Newton (by John Gascoigne).
On Newtonian History (by Garry W. Trompf).