...the homuncular position. Newton, in Query 28 of the Optics, wrote that the images of external things, "carried through the Organs of Sense into our little...seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks."74 But other writers were more careful, explicitly warning against the dangers of homuncularism....

...things being rightly dispatched, does it not appear from phaenomena that there is a being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were in his sensory, sees the things themsetves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them and comprehends them wholly by their immediate...

...Even Newton's highly-controversial assertion, viz. to the effect that God is 'a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself is qualified by the analogical statement 'as it were in his sensory'. The 'sensory' played a vital...

...the movement of things: . . . Does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite...comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself?33 If God perceives everything immediately and directly through his omnipresence, this presupposes...

...of a Being [Annon Spatium Universum, Sensorium est Entis] incorporeal, living, and intelligent, who sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself .... David Gregory, who held an extensive discussion of the new Queries with Newton on 21 December...

...which each of us was equipped. Newton asks, "does it not appear that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were in his sensory [sensorium], sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them. . . by their immediate...

...in infinite Space, äs it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself ' (Opticks, 370). Die Überlegungen in den "Opticks" sind mehr gnoseologisch bestimmt, die aber in...

...humanity from the true philosophy: 'does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself (Newton 1952: 370, my italics).5 The philosophical astronomer sees through the variety of bodies and...

..."[T]here is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were with his sensory, sees the things themselves intimately,...comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself."14 God not only perceives all things, but can act through them. According to Newton, God "being...

...referred to "infinite space" as the "Sensorium of a being incorporeal, living, and intelligent, who sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself." Even as the book was being published, he evidently got nervous about the phrase, and some copies, presumably...