Westfall, Richard

Westfall, Richard S. Isaac Newton s Index chemicus. Ambix 22, no. 3 (Nov 1975) 174-175. 

Westfall, Richard S. Biographies of alchemists and hermetic philosophers. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemv/ biograph, htmll. 

Westfall, Richard S. The changing world of the Newtonian industry. J Hist Ideas 37, no. 1 (1976) 175-184. 

Westfall, Richard S. "The influence of alchemy on Newton." In Science, pseudoscience and society, eds. P. Hanen, M.J. Osier and R.G. Weyant, 145-169. Waterloo (ON) Wilfred Laurier Univ P for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1980. 

Westfall, Richard S. The life of Isaac Newton. Cambridge Cambridge Univ P, 1993. 

Westfall, Richard S. Newton and the fudge factor. Science 179 (1973) 751-758. 

Westfall, Richard S. "Newton and the Hermetic tradition." In Science, medicine and society in the Renaissance, ed. Allen George Debus, ii, 183-198. London ... 

Westfall, Richard S. "The role of alchemy in Newton s career." In Reason, experiment, and mysticism in the scientific revolution, eds. M.L. Righini Bonelli and W.L. Shea, 189-232. New York Science History, 1975. 

Westfall, Richard S. "Alchemy in Newton s library." Ambix, Nov 1984, 97-101. 

Westfall, Richard S. Science and religion in seventeenth-century England. New Haven (CT) Yale Univ P, 1958. 235p. 

Westfall, Richard Never At Rest ABiography of Isaac Newton (New York Cambridge University Press, 1983), 351, which cites Yahuda MS92E. 139. 

Westfall, Richard. 1980. Never at Rest. Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press. 

Cohen, I. B., and Westfall, Richard S. (1995). Newton Texts, Background, and Commentaries. New York W. W. Norton. 

Brewster, David. Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton. With a new introd. by Richard S. Westfall. New York Johnson Reprint Corp., 1965. 2 vols... 

Cohen, I. Bernard and Richard S. Westfall, eds.Newton texts, backgrounds, commentaries selected and edited by I. Bernard Cohen and Richard S. Westfal. New York Norton, 1995. xv, 436 p... 

Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter. Essay Review of Richard S. Westfalls Never at Rest. A Biography of Isaac Newton. Ambix 29, no. 1 (Mar 1982) 62. 

Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter. Review of A. Rupert Hall, Isaac Newton adventurer in thought and Richard S. Westfall, The life of Isaac Newton. Isis 85 (1994) 515-517. 

Osier, Margaret J. and Paul Lawrence Farber, eds.Religion, science and world view essays in honour of Richard Westfall. Cambridge Cambridge Univ P, 1985. 

E.g. Richard S. Westfall, Newton and Alchemy, 315-35 in Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance, ed. Brian Vickers (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984) and Never at Rest A... 

For Isaac Newton s use of Johannes Magirus (discussed below), see Richard Westfall, Never at Rest (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1980), 84, 101. 

One could also point to many another synthetic treatment of the Scientific Revolution that views alchemy as an irrational bit player in early modern science. Richard Westfall s The Construction of Modem Science Mechanisms and Mechanics (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1977), pp. 68-69, adopts the view that alchemy was essentially wedded to a vitalist or animist concept of nature and that the subject could be integrated with the mechanical philosophy only when alchemy gave way to chemistry. This artificial dichotomy, seemingly based on the work of Helene Metzger, has been discredited in Newman and Principe, Alchemy versus Chemistry, pp. 33-38. 

The mechanical philosophy has never been an unproblematic category. E. J. Dijksterhuis already pointed out a number of senses in which mechanical could be taken in his Mechanization of the World Picture of 1961, and Richard Westfall s Construction of Modem Science is built on the distinction between mechanisms and mechanics. One could readily devote a book to the different definitions that historians and philosophers have applied— implicitly or explicitly—to mechanism and the mechanical philosophy. My goal, however, is not to arrive at an essentialist picmre of mechanism taken in a transhistorical sense. Instead, I hope to provide some modest clarification of the relationship that Robert Boyle conceived to exist between chymistry and the mechanical philosophy, the latter term being one that he surely did more than any other figure... 

E. J. Dijksterhuis, The Mechanization of the World Picture (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1961), pp. 3-5. For further clarification, see the discussion of Dijksterhuis s views on mechanism in Floris Cohen, The Scientific Revolution A Historiographical Inquiry (Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 66-68 and Richard Westfall, The Construction of Modem Science Mechanisms and Mechanics (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1977) pp. 1-2 and passim. 

Richard S. Westfall, Never at Rest a Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge, 1980), p. 290. 

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