Scott Mandelbrote
Biographic Data
| ID | 609572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Mandelbrote |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandelbrote |
| SIGNATURE | MANDELBROTE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author, 1500–1750
The Limits of Erudition. The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe, by Timothy Twining
Collaboration and Rivalry in the Publishing of Newton’s Mathematics: A Study of Russell Library, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Shelfmark: Sc. 22. 3
Obligation, expectation, and the material traces of intellectual community in northern Germany around 1700: Reflections on Martin Mulsow’s Knowledge Lost
Calculators in Divinity: Henry Savile and Thomas Bradwardine
This essay discusses the immediate context and form of the publication of Henry Savile’s edition of Thomas Bradwardine’s De causa Dei (1618). It sets out the political and theological significance of the work in relation to publications of the King’s Printers, the Synod of Dort, and the activities of Archbishop Abbot. It moves on to consider how the edition was made, resituating it in Oxford intellectual life of the early 1610s and in the broader…
Beyond a Boundary: Reflections on Newton the Historian, Theologian, and Alchemist
In 1963, the Trinidadian historian C.L.R. James adapted Rudyard Kipling to “pose the question What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? To answer involves ideas as well as facts.” My remarks here relate neither to empire nor to cricket, but to studies of Isaac Newton. Newton himself acted to shape historical commentary on his life and work, which have been the subject of historical study at least since the time of his death. From the be…
Building for England: John Cosin’s Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge, by Adrian Green
This is a succinct and richly illustrated (26 plates, many in colour) account, by Adrian Green, of the building campaigns of John Cosin (1595–1672) in the diocese of Durham and the university of Cambridge. It chronicles Cosin’s patronage of mostly local craftsmen and pattern-book designs at Brancepeth, the rich living to which he moved with his new wife, Frances Blakiston, in 1626, and as a prebend of Durham Cathedral, where he was at the forefro…
The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000: Essays for Charles Webster
Contents: Preface: 'For the improvement of all things' The instauration of the image of God in man: humanist anthropology, encyclopaedic pedagogy, Baconianism and universal reform, Howard Hotson Harmony, health, and healing: music's role in early modern Paracelsian thought, Penelope Gouk The economy of magic in early modern England, Lauren Kassell Chemical medicine and Paracelsianism in Italy, 1550-1650, Antonio Clericuzio Politics, medicine, and…
Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500-2000: Essays for Charles Webster
Gold Leaf and Graffiti in a Copy of the 1462 Mainz Bible
This article discusses an illuminated copy of the fourth printed edition of the Latin Vulgate (Mainz, 1462), or 48-line Bible, which is now in the Perne Library at Peterhouse, Cambridge. It considers the history of the book in the late sixteenth century, when it passed between two lawyers (Justinian Kidd and Edward Orwell) in London, and its path into the collection at Peterhouse, via John Cosin, later bishop of Durham. It assesses evidence that …
The New Cambridge History of the Bible
This volume charts the Bible's progress from the end of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. During this period, for the first time since antiquity, the Latin Church focused on recovering and re-establishing the text of Scripture in its original languages. It considered the theological challenges of treating Scripture as another ancient text edited with the tools of philology. This crucial period also saw the creation of many definitive translat…
Isaac Newton learns Hebrew: Samuel Johnson's Nova cubi Hebræi tabella
This article concerns the earliest evidence for Isaac Newton's use of Hebrew: a manuscript copy by Newton of part of a work intended to provide a reader of the Hebrew alphabet with the ability to identify or memorize more than 1000 words and to begin to master the conjugations of the Hebrew verb. In describing the content of this unpublished manuscript and establishing its source and original author for the first time, we suggest how and when New…
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
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Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c.1650-1950
This book considers the use of the Bible by dissenters in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It reconsiders the divided history of Protestantism-dissenters were people drawn together by the belief that they were truer to the Bible than any other Christians, yet still divided by differences in how they read it.
Making God Speak English
Towards the end of the preface that he wrote on behalf of the translators of the King James Bible in 1611, Miles Smith (d. 1624) stated that ‘we desire that the Scripture may speake like it selfe, as in the language of Canaan, that it may bee vnderstood euen of the very vulgar’.1 This assessment of the aims of the translators is more complex than it might seem at first sight. In the spirit of medieval and early modern biblical commentary, one mig…
The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism in English. By Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
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The Uses of Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England
Argument This essay describes two styles of natural theology that emerged in England out of a debate over the correct interpretation of divine evidences in nature during the seventeenth century. The first style was exemplified in the work of John Wilkins and Robert Boyle. It stressed the lawful operation of the universe under a providential order. The second, embodied in the writings of the Cambridge Platonists, was more open to evidence for the …
Eighteenth-Century Reactions to Newton’s Anti-Trinitarianism
The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture
Journal Article The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture Get access The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture, by Jonathan Sheehan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. P. 2005; pp. xx + 273. £22.95). Scott Mandelbrote Scott Mandelbrote Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 492, June 2006, Pages 943–945, https://doi…
Writing the History of the English Bible in the Early Eighteenth Century
The letter of Scripture suffering various Interpretations, it is plain that Error may pretend to Scripture; the antient Fathers being likewise dead, and not able to vindicate themselves, their writings may be wrested, and Error may make use of them to back itself; Reason too being bypassed by Interest, Education, Passion, Society, &c.... Tradition only rests secure. The 1680s were a difficult decade for the English Bible, just as they were for so…
Newton and Newtonianism: An introduction
Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought
Journal Article Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought Get access Scott Mandelbrote Scott Mandelbrote Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 480, February 2004, Pages 209–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.480.209 Published: 01 February 2004
Robert Boyle (1627-1691): Scrupulosity and Science
Journal Article Robert Boyle (1627–1691): Scrupulosity and Science Get access Scott Mandelbrote Scott Mandelbrote Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 478, September 2003, Pages 1058–1059, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/118.478.1058 Published: 01 September 2003
Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
What influence did music have in the domains of natural magic and early modern experimental science? In this highly original book, Penelope Gouk argues that developments in sixteenth-century musical practices changed English thought on science and magic in the next century. Her exploration of the relationships among these apparently separate disciplines sheds new light on the history of each
The bible and national identity in the British Isles, c .1650– c .1750
[I]t can't be reasonably doubted, but the true Old Britains, or Welch, are Descendants of Gomer. And since it has been also observ'd above, that the Germans were likely Descendants of Gomer, particularly the Cimbri, to whom the Saxons, especially the Angles were near Neighbours: hence it follows, that our Ancestors likewise, who succeeded the Old Britains in these Parts of this Isle, were descended of the same son of Japhet.
The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture
Journal Article The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture Get access The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture, by Jonathan Sheehan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. P. 2005; pp. xx + 273. £22.95). Scott Mandelbrote Scott Mandelbrote Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 492, June 2006, Pages 943–945, https://doi…
A duty of the greatest moment’: Isaac Newton and the writing of biblical criticism
Will Ladislaw's words, which so disillusion the young Dorothea, might also depress the modern interpreter of Newton's theology. Encountering the bulk of Newton's manuscript theology, it is tempting to sympathize with Dorothea's eventual response to The Key to all Mythologies , and to want nothing of it. The assessment of John Conduitt, Newton's son-in-law and executor, that his ‘relief and amusement was going to some other study, as history, chro…
Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought
Journal Article Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought Get access Scott Mandelbrote Scott Mandelbrote Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 480, February 2004, Pages 209–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.480.209 Published: 01 February 2004
Newton and Newtonianism: An introduction
A duty of the greatest moment’: Isaac Newton and the writing of biblical criticism
Will Ladislaw's words, which so disillusion the young Dorothea, might also depress the modern interpreter of Newton's theology. Encountering the bulk of Newton's manuscript theology, it is tempting to sympathize with Dorothea's eventual response to The Key to all Mythologies , and to want nothing of it. The assessment of John Conduitt, Newton's son-in-law and executor, that his ‘relief and amusement was going to some other study, as history, chro…
Isaac Newton and Thomas Burnet: Biblical Criticism and the Crisis of Late Seventeenth-Century England
The "Arabick" Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England . G. A. Russell
Essay review
Scientific lecturing and the industrial revolution Alan Q. Morton and Jane A. Wess, Public and Private Science: The King George III Colletion, (Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the Science Museum, 1993), pp. x + 710 Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660–1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. xxxiv + 453
History, narrative, and time
Astrology and the Seventeenth-Century Mind: William Lilly and the Language of the Stars. Ann Geneva
The bible and national identity in the British Isles, c .1650– c .1750
[I]t can't be reasonably doubted, but the true Old Britains, or Welch, are Descendants of Gomer. And since it has been also observ'd above, that the Germans were likely Descendants of Gomer, particularly the Cimbri, to whom the Saxons, especially the Angles were near Neighbours: hence it follows, that our Ancestors likewise, who succeeded the Old Britains in these Parts of this Isle, were descended of the same son of Japhet.
Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
What influence did music have in the domains of natural magic and early modern experimental science? In this highly original book, Penelope Gouk argues that developments in sixteenth-century musical practices changed English thought on science and magic in the next century. Her exploration of the relationships among these apparently separate disciplines sheds new light on the history of each
Robert Boyle (1627-1691): Scrupulosity and Science
Journal Article Robert Boyle (1627–1691): Scrupulosity and Science Get access Scott Mandelbrote Scott Mandelbrote Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 478, September 2003, Pages 1058–1059, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/118.478.1058 Published: 01 September 2003
Writing the History of the English Bible in the Early Eighteenth Century
The letter of Scripture suffering various Interpretations, it is plain that Error may pretend to Scripture; the antient Fathers being likewise dead, and not able to vindicate themselves, their writings may be wrested, and Error may make use of them to back itself; Reason too being bypassed by Interest, Education, Passion, Society, &c.... Tradition only rests secure. The 1680s were a difficult decade for the English Bible, just as they were for so…
Newton and Newtonianism: An introduction
Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought
Journal Article Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought Get access Scott Mandelbrote Scott Mandelbrote Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 480, February 2004, Pages 209–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.480.209 Published: 01 February 2004
Eighteenth-Century Reactions to Newton’s Anti-Trinitarianism
The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture
Journal Article The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture Get access The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture, by Jonathan Sheehan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. P. 2005; pp. xx + 273. £22.95). Scott Mandelbrote Scott Mandelbrote Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 492, June 2006, Pages 943–945, https://doi…
The Uses of Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England
Argument This essay describes two styles of natural theology that emerged in England out of a debate over the correct interpretation of divine evidences in nature during the seventeenth century. The first style was exemplified in the work of John Wilkins and Robert Boyle. It stressed the lawful operation of the universe under a providential order. The second, embodied in the writings of the Cambridge Platonists, was more open to evidence for the …
The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism in English. By Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Preview this article: The Bishop’s Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism in English. By Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.39.2-3.13man-1.gif
Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c.1650-1950
This book considers the use of the Bible by dissenters in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It reconsiders the divided history of Protestantism-dissenters were people drawn together by the belief that they were truer to the Bible than any other Christians, yet still divided by differences in how they read it.
Making God Speak English
Towards the end of the preface that he wrote on behalf of the translators of the King James Bible in 1611, Miles Smith (d. 1624) stated that ‘we desire that the Scripture may speake like it selfe, as in the language of Canaan, that it may bee vnderstood euen of the very vulgar’.1 This assessment of the aims of the translators is more complex than it might seem at first sight. In the spirit of medieval and early modern biblical commentary, one mig…
The New Cambridge History of the Bible
This volume charts the Bible's progress from the end of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. During this period, for the first time since antiquity, the Latin Church focused on recovering and re-establishing the text of Scripture in its original languages. It considered the theological challenges of treating Scripture as another ancient text edited with the tools of philology. This crucial period also saw the creation of many definitive translat…
Isaac Newton learns Hebrew: Samuel Johnson's Nova cubi Hebræi tabella
This article concerns the earliest evidence for Isaac Newton's use of Hebrew: a manuscript copy by Newton of part of a work intended to provide a reader of the Hebrew alphabet with the ability to identify or memorize more than 1000 words and to begin to master the conjugations of the Hebrew verb. In describing the content of this unpublished manuscript and establishing its source and original author for the first time, we suggest how and when New…
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000: Essays for Charles Webster
Contents: Preface: 'For the improvement of all things' The instauration of the image of God in man: humanist anthropology, encyclopaedic pedagogy, Baconianism and universal reform, Howard Hotson Harmony, health, and healing: music's role in early modern Paracelsian thought, Penelope Gouk The economy of magic in early modern England, Lauren Kassell Chemical medicine and Paracelsianism in Italy, 1550-1650, Antonio Clericuzio Politics, medicine, and…
Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500-2000: Essays for Charles Webster
Gold Leaf and Graffiti in a Copy of the 1462 Mainz Bible
This article discusses an illuminated copy of the fourth printed edition of the Latin Vulgate (Mainz, 1462), or 48-line Bible, which is now in the Perne Library at Peterhouse, Cambridge. It considers the history of the book in the late sixteenth century, when it passed between two lawyers (Justinian Kidd and Edward Orwell) in London, and its path into the collection at Peterhouse, via John Cosin, later bishop of Durham. It assesses evidence that …
Building for England: John Cosin’s Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge, by Adrian Green
This is a succinct and richly illustrated (26 plates, many in colour) account, by Adrian Green, of the building campaigns of John Cosin (1595–1672) in the diocese of Durham and the university of Cambridge. It chronicles Cosin’s patronage of mostly local craftsmen and pattern-book designs at Brancepeth, the rich living to which he moved with his new wife, Frances Blakiston, in 1626, and as a prebend of Durham Cathedral, where he was at the forefro…
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