Grant Mccolley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1043953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant Mccolley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccolley |
| SIGNATURE | MCCOLLEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Paradise Lost
An Early Poetic Allusion to the Copernican Theory
Milton's Battle in Heaven and Rupert of Saint Heribert
George Valla
Christopher Scheiner and the Decline of Neo-Aristotelianism
The Universe of De Revolutionibus
Paradise Lost
Among the significant questions perennially raised by Miltonic criticism, the two most important are the two most variously answered: What is Paradise Lost, and why did Milton write it? If the evidence which follows may be regarded as sufficiently exhaustive, I suggest that Paradise Lost was designed as a non-sectarian epic and more or less deliberately modelled as well as based upon conservative religious literature. The second conclusion is tha…
The Book of Enoch and Paradise Lost
For many years it has been the accepted belief that ‘from the fourth century of our era’ the Book of I Enoch ‘gradually passed out of circulation, and became lost to the knowledge of Western Christendom’ until 1773, ‘when an Ethiopic version of the work was found in Abyssinia by Bruce.’ It is doubtless true that I Enoch was not in any exact sense known to Europe until the return of Bruce, but the belief that he was the first to ‘discover’ the boo…
Notes and Correspondence
John Wilkins--A Precursor of Locke
Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England . Francis R. Johnson
"Josephus Blancanus and the Adoption of Our Word "Telescope
Milton's Dialogue on Astronomy
In a recent series of studies I developed at some length the general background of cosmological thought which gave rise to and in large measure explains both the astronomy and the astronomical comment of Paradise Lost . The present essay continues this investigation of Milton's cosmological beliefs, but restricts discussion to the Raphael-Adam dialogue of Book VIII, interpreted in the light of its immediate sources. In brief, these sources consis…
The Epic Catalogue of Paradise Lost
Saint Bonaventure, Francis Mayron, William Vorilong, and the Doctrine of a Plurality of Worlds
Bishop John Wilkins and the Definition of Science
An Early Friend of the Copernican Theory
The Theory of the Diurnal Rotation of the Earth
Milton's Dialogue on Astronomy
In a recent series of studies I developed at some length the general background of cosmological thought which gave rise to and in large measure explains both the astronomy and the astronomical comment of Paradise Lost . The present essay continues this investigation of Milton's cosmological beliefs, but restricts discussion to the Raphael-Adam dialogue of Book VIII, interpreted in the light of its immediate sources. In brief, these sources consis…
The Epic Catalogue of Paradise Lost
Saint Bonaventure, Francis Mayron, William Vorilong, and the Doctrine of a Plurality of Worlds
Bishop John Wilkins and the Definition of Science
An Early Friend of the Copernican Theory
The Theory of the Diurnal Rotation of the Earth
The Book of Enoch and Paradise Lost
For many years it has been the accepted belief that ‘from the fourth century of our era’ the Book of I Enoch ‘gradually passed out of circulation, and became lost to the knowledge of Western Christendom’ until 1773, ‘when an Ethiopic version of the work was found in Abyssinia by Bruce.’ It is doubtless true that I Enoch was not in any exact sense known to Europe until the return of Bruce, but the belief that he was the first to ‘discover’ the boo…
Notes and Correspondence
John Wilkins--A Precursor of Locke
Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England . Francis R. Johnson
"Josephus Blancanus and the Adoption of Our Word "Telescope
The Universe of De Revolutionibus
Paradise Lost
Among the significant questions perennially raised by Miltonic criticism, the two most important are the two most variously answered: What is Paradise Lost, and why did Milton write it? If the evidence which follows may be regarded as sufficiently exhaustive, I suggest that Paradise Lost was designed as a non-sectarian epic and more or less deliberately modelled as well as based upon conservative religious literature. The second conclusion is tha…
Christopher Scheiner and the Decline of Neo-Aristotelianism
Milton's Battle in Heaven and Rupert of Saint Heribert
George Valla
Paradise Lost
An Early Poetic Allusion to the Copernican Theory
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