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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Kenelm Digby"”.
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Salvation in the Scholarship of Seventeenth-Century English Catholics
… three seventeenth-century English Catholics: Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), Thomas White (1593–1676), and Franciscus à Sancta Clara (c. 1598–1680). My first overarching argument is that salvation is an invaluable and historiographically underappreciated conceptual focus that improves our current …
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Matter in motion: The problem of activity in seventeenth-century English matter theory
… chapters show the ways in which Hobbes, Sir Kenelm Digby, Walter Charleton, Henry More, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, Sir William Petty and Isaac Newton tried to account for the motions and other activities of matter. In the Conclusion it is reasserted that the concept of passive inert matter …
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Hallowed ground: literature and the encounter with god in post-reformtion england, c. 1550 - 1704
… Science and Resurrection in the Writing of Sir Kenelm Digby," considers Digby's scientific researches into palingenesis, the attempt to raise a plant or animal phoenix-like from its ashes, as a kind of unconscious religious experience. In chapter four, "The Rosicrucian Mysticism of Henry and …