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Sciences in History, ed. Marina Frasca- Spada and Nick Jardine (Cambridge: Cambridge
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Knowledge in the Making (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998); and Jonathan R.
Topham, “Scientifi c Publishing and the Reading of Science in Nineteenth- Century Brit-
ain: An Historiographical Survey and Guide to Sources,” Studies in History and Philoso-
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and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2001), 14, 23. - Nicolaas Rupke, “Translation Studies in the History of Science: the Example of
Vestiges,” British Journal for the History of Science 33 (2000): 209–22. - What follows is drawn, in part, from David N. Livingstone, “Science, Religion
and the Geography of Reading: Sir William Whitla and the Editorial Staging of Isaac
Newton’s Writings on Biblical Prophecy,” British Journal for the History of Science 36
(2003): 27–42 - Earlier uses of Newton as a cultural resource are discussed in Margaret C. Jacob,
The Cultural Meaning of the Scientifi c Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1988). - Sir William Whitla, Sir Isaac Newton’s Daniel and the Apocalypse, With an Intro-
ductory Study of the Nature and Cause of Unbelief, of Miracles and Prophecy (London: John
Murray, 1922), xi. - See the discussion in David N. Livingstone and Ronald A. Wells, Ulster- American
Religion: Episodes in the History of a Cultural Connection (Notre Dame, IN: University of
Notre Dame Press, 1999). - Whitla, Sir Isaac Newton’s Daniel, 41–42.
- “Science and Religion: Address by Sir Wm Whitla, M.P.,” Christian Advocate,
October 13, 1922. - Sir William Whitla, The Methodists of Ireland and Home Rule. Message to English
Nonconformists (Belfast: Committee of the Methodist Demonstration against Home
Rule, 1910), 3. - Christian Advocate, November 25, 1921.
- Witness, November 25, 1921.
- S. G. Kennedy, “Dangers Confronting Us Viewed in the Light of Church His-
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- Whitla, Sir Isaac Newton’s Daniel, 103, 104.
- See Alvin Jackson, Ireland: 1798–1998 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999).