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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, in The Works of Francis
Bacon,
eds. J. Spedding, R. L. Ellis, and D. D. Heath, 15
vols. (Boston, 1861). William Chillingworth, The Works of
William Chillingworth, containing his book The Religion of
Protestants, a Safe Way to Salvation
(Philadelphia, 1844).
John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty (New York, 1960,
reprint). René Descartes, The Philosophical Works of Des-
cartes,
eds. E. S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross, 2 vols.
(New York, 1955). John Locke, Essay Concerning Human
Understanding
(1690; London and New York, 1924; many
reprints). Marin Mersenne, La Vérité des sciences contre les
sceptiques ou pyrrhoniens
(Paris, 1623); idem, Les Questions
théologiques, physiques, morales et mathématiques
(Paris,
1634). Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy and his System of the World,
trans. A. Motte
(1729); rev. by F. Cajori (Berkeley; 1946). The Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London,
eds. C. Hutton,
G. Shaw, and R. Pearson, 18 vols. (London, 1809). Richard
H. Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to
Descartes
(New York, 1961). Henry G. Van Leeuwen, The
Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630-1690
(The
Hague, 1963). John Wilkins, Of the Principles and Duties
of Natural Religion
(London, 1699).

HENRY G. VAN LEEUWEN

[See also Appearance and Reality; Axiomatization; Baco-
nianism; Causation; Certainty since the Seventeenth Cen-
tury;
Faith; Indeterminacy; Necessity; Newton on Method;
Rationality;
Reformation; Sin and Salvation; Skepticism.]

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