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Estudios de Filosofía
versión impresa ISSN 0121-3628
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BAILLON, Jean-François. Newtonian Theology and Theory of Vision: Which Contexts for the 1704-1722 Editions of Newtons Opticks?. Estud.filos [online]. 2007, n.35, pp.55-66. ISSN 0121-3628.
Newtons Opticks was published time and again during his life. To fix a definitive version, in con- sequence, is problematic, so it is necessary to resort not just to the text but also to the contexts and to intertextuality. This paper set out the difficulties of the Opticks traditional readings (as answer to earlier theories of light and vision and as part of the British physico-theology) and argues for a theological reading, based on the epistemology of the Opticks and on the religious enthusiasm Newton categorically rejected. Consequence of this reading is a reformulation of the text, the context and the intertextuality that makes comprehensible Newtons Opticks.
Palabras clave : Isaac Newton; Opticks; theory of light and vision; theology; millenarianism.