Scientific Paper, A (on Newtonian universe for Jefferson et al.)

'''Wills, Gary. Part Two, "A Scientific Paper,"''' ch. 7. In Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. Vintage-Random, 1979: [93]-110.

On the liberating aspects of the Newtonian vision of a clockwork universe. See for a relatively simple introd. to the literally revolutionary effect of a mechanistic vision of the universe, society, and human beings. See above, entry for R. S. Westfall on I. Newton.