Introduction: The idea of antiquity / Stephen Gaukroger -- Copernicus, Apollo, and Herakles / Keith Hutchison -- Religion and the Failures of Determinism / John Sutton -- The Paradox of Power: Hobbes and Stoic Naturalism / Jamie C. Kassler -- Cudworth
and Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness / Udo Thiel -- The Neoplatonic Conception of Nature in More, Cudworth, and Berkeley / Alexander Jacob -- The Ancient Legal Sources of Seventeenth-Century Probability / James Franklin -- Robert Hooke, Physico-Mythology, Knowledge of the World of the Ancients and Knowledge of the Ancient World / Kirsten Birkett, David Oldroyd -- 'The Wisdom of the Egyptians' and the Secularisation of History in the Age of Newton / John Gascoigne -- On Newtonian History / Garry W. Trompf.
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