By Robert Crocker (auth.), Sarah Hutton (eds.)
Of all of the Cambridge Platonists, Henry extra has attracted the main pupil ly curiosity lately, because the nature and value of his contribution to the heritage of concept has grow to be greater understood. This revival of curiosity is in marked distinction to the overlook of More's writings lamented even via his first biographer, Richard Ward, a remorse echoed centuries after his 1 loss of life. considering that then such consciousness as there was to extra has now not continually served him good. He has been pushed aside as credulous as a result of his trust in witchcraft whereas his acceptance because the so much mystical of the Cambridge 2 institution has undermined his acceptance as a thinker. a lot of the curiosity in additional within the current century has tended to target one specific element of his writing. there was huge curiosity in his poems. And he has come to the eye of philosophers due to his having corresponded with Descartes. Latterly, even though, curiosity in additional has been rekindled by means of renewed curiosity within the highbrow heritage of the 17th century and Renaissance. And extra has been studied within the context of seventeenth-cen tury technological know-how and the broader context of seventeenth-century philosophy. in view that extra is a determine who belongs to the Renaissance culture of unified sapientia he's not simply compartmentalised within the different types of recent disciplines. necessarily dialogue of someone point of his concept consists of different aspects.
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15. AT(NP), 8:314-5. 16. , 5:389. 17. More, CSPW, AA, 46. 18. , 42. As it stands, this argument cannot count against Cartesian mechanism, since Descartes' material particles do not move fortuitously, but according to divinely-established laws of nature. However, More did not believe that the initial chaos in Descartes' cosmogony, ruled by mechanical law, could have devolved into the ordered world we know without guiding Providence. A more serious problem is that 'blind fortuitous jumblings' are necessarily not subject to any natural laws whatever, whether mechnical or not.
18 In the 1662 edition of the Antidote, and later in the Enchiridion metaphysicum, More introduced the air-pump experiments that Boyle reported in his New Experiments physico-mechanical touching the spring of the air (1660), to show that one of them at least could not be accounted for in mechanical terms. 19 How can the sucker of an exhausted air-pump draw upwards of its own accord a weight of 100 Ibs. or more? More concedes that Boyle's hypothesis of 'an elastick power in the air' is the most plausible explanation, yet such an enormous pressure ought to exist everywhere in the air; and a pat of butter of the same diameter as the sucker, for example, ought to be squeezed flat, and the liquids squeezed out of it, with a total force of 200 Ibs, which obviously does not happen.
33. AT(NP), 5:383, from Gabbey, 211. 34. , 213. 35. 'Quod vero addit externam aliquam esse vim, sive a Deo sit, sive a substantia ali qua incorporea a Deo creata, qua materia in motum excitatur ... ac si Divina illa vis singula corpora immediate impelleret quae moventur, magna erit difficultas; frustra enim essent mutui corporum impulsus', AT(NP), 5:646, 356. 36. John Henry, 'Occult Qualities'. Henry More and the limits of mechanism 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. More, CSPW, IS, 11. Ibid. Hyrne to More, 19 aug.