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and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614–1698) (Leiden: Brill, 1999), ch.
7; Coudert, “Kabbalistic Messianism versus Kabbalistic Enlightenment,” in
Jewish Messianism in the Early Modern World, 107–24.
113. See the literature on Newton cited above, and Margaret C. Jacob, The
Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689–1720 (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1976), ch. 3.
114. See G. S. Rousseau, “Medicine and Millenarianism,” in Rousseau, Enlightenment
Borders: Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses—Medical, Scientific (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1991), 78–117.
115. See Richard H. Popkin, The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1979).
116. R. H. Popkin, “The Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought: Scepticism,
Science and Millenarianism,” in Popkin, The Third Force in Seventeenth Century
Thought (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), 90–119; quotation from 90–91.
117. Ibid., 103.
118. The ‘Libro de las profecías’ of Christopher Columbus, trans. and ed. by D. C. West
and A. Kling (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1991), 60. See also
Cristóforo Colombo, Epístola de Insulis Nuper Inventis, with an English Translation
by Frank E. Robbins (n/p: Readex Microprint Co., 1966), 16–17.
119. Ibid., 61.
120. Ibid., 54–55. The editors understand this episode in the framework of spiritualis
intellectus; but this is certainly nothing less than a prophetic dream.
121. Djelal Kadir, Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe’s Prophetic Rhetoric As Conquering
Ideology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 1. See also
Libro de las profecías, 71–72.
122. See in general Milhou, Colón y su mentalidad mesiánica; Kadir, Columbus and the
Ends of the Earth; ‘Libro de las profecías’; Ronald Sanders, Lost Tribes and Promised
Lands (Boston: Little, Brown, 1978).
123. See Paolo Rossi, The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth and the History of
Nations from Hooke to Vico, trans. L. G. Cochrane (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1984), esp. part II; Norman Cohn, Noah’s Flood: The Genesis Story in Western
Thought (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), chs. 4–7; Don C. Allen,
The Legend of Noah (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1949); Lynn Glaser,
America on Paper: The First Hundred Years (Philadelphia: Associated Antiquaries,
1989); Andrew Gow, “Gog and Magog on Mappaemundi and Early Printed
World Maps: Orientalizing Ethnography in the Apocalyptic Tradition,” Journal
of Early Modern History 2 (1998): 61–88.
124. See Richard H. Popkin, Isaac La Peyrère (1596–1676): His Life, Work and Influence
(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1987.
125. See ibid., chs. 9, 10; Margaret T. Hodgen, Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964),
272–76; and chs. 4–10 in general for the light they throw on many problems
dealt with here.
126. See Popkin, Isaac La Peyrère, chs. 4, 7.