[364] Milton: Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII, lines 159 et seq.
The great Puritan divine, John Owen (1616-1683), accepts the miracle of the sun's standing still without a word of reference to the new astronomy. (Works: II, 160.) Farrar states that Owen declared Newton's discoveries were against the evident testimonies of Scripture (Farrar: History of Interpretation: xviii.), but I have been unable to verify this statement. Owen died before the Principia was published in 1687.
[365] Whewell: I, 410.
[366] Wilkins: Discourse Concerning a New Planet.
[367] Salusbury: Math. Coll.: To the Reader.
[368] Whewell: I, 411.
[369] One London bookseller in 1670 advertised for sale "spheres according to the Ptolmean, Tychonean and Copernican systems with books for their use." (Moxon: 272.) In 1683 in London appeared the third edition of Gassendi's Institutio, the textbook of astronomy in the universities during this period of uncertainty. It too wavers between the Tychonic and the Copernican systems.
[370] Dict. of Nat. Biog.: "Keill."
[371] Keill: Introductio ad Veram Astronomiam.
[372] Cajori: 29-30.