Science and Religion in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature

Excerpts from the Aphorisms of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), from Fordham University’s Modern History Sourcebook.
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Blaise Pascal, Pensee 233, frequently referred to as “Pascal’s Wager,” translated by W. F. Trotter. From a Calvinist site called “The Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics,” which seeks to demonstrate the validity of Christianity.
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Four of the Philosophical Letters of Voltaire, numbered XIV-XVII, comparing the scientific contributions of Newton and Descartes, with detailed explications of Newton’s findings on gravity, optics, geometry, and chronology. The Fordham Modern History Sourcebook gives 1778 as the date of the letters, which means that they are from The Works of M. de Voltaire, trans. T. Smollett, T. Francklin, and others, published in London in several volumes.
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