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Why Isaac Newton Rejected Astrology: A Preliminary Reconstruction or "Newton's Comets and the Transformation of Astrology": 20 Years Later

Authors: Rutkin, H. Darrel;

Why Isaac Newton Rejected Astrology: A Preliminary Reconstruction or "Newton's Comets and the Transformation of Astrology": 20 Years Later

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[ES] ¿Cuál era la relación de Newton con la astrología? A diferencia de su estudio y práctica de la alquimia, existe poca. evidencia en la cual basar una respuesta bien fundamentada. En esta investigación preliminar, sostengo que Newton rechazó la astrología tanto por razones personales como ideológicas. Esta valencia anti-astrológica se manifiesta principalmente en manuscritos relacionados con su tratado teológico "The Philosophical Origins of Gentile Theology" (1680s). Además de argumentar por esta orientación anti-astrológica, quisiera establecer, pace al argumento de influencia de Simon Schaffer, que Newton nunca consideró que los cometas estuvieran dotados de alma. Finalmente, presento evidencia para argumentar que el rechazo de Newton a la astrología debería ser visto dentro del más amplio marco de la cambiante relación de la astrología con la creación providencial de Dios y su dominio del mundo. Mientras que anteriormente la astrología habla sido usada para apoyar la divina providencia, el rechazo de Newton a la astrología y su revisión de la cometología reorientaron radicalmente esta tradición centenaria.

[EN] What was Isaac Newton's relationship to astrology? Unlike with bis study and practice of alchemy, there is very little evidence on which to base a well-established answer. In this preliminary investigation, I argue that Newton rejected astrology for both personal and ideological reasons. This anti-astrological valence is primarily revealed in manuscript writings related to bis mid-1680s theological tract, "The Philosophical Origins of Gentile Theology." In addition to arguing for this anti-astrological orientation, I also wish to establish, pace Simon Schaffer's influential argument, that Newton never considered comets to be ensouled. Finally, I present evidence to argue that Newton's rejection of astrology should be seen within the broader framework of astrology's changing relationship to God's providential creation and governance of the world; whereas previously astrology had been used to support God's Providence, Newton's rejection of astrology and revision of cometology radically reoriented this centuries long tradition.

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