Here you can find a list of my academic publications. For books, the links will take you to the website of the publisher. For articles, the links will take you to the published version. If you do not have a university subscription or other means of accessing published articles, please Contact me and I will send you an electronic offprint.
The image on the right is the poster for the Dacre Lecture which I delivered in Oxford in May 2024. The illustration is by Luke Edward Hall, a brilliant artist based in London and Oxfordshire.
Books
Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science (Cambridge: CUP, 2015)
The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 2022)
ed., with N. Hardy, Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe: an Episode in the History of the Humanities (Oxford, Proceedings of the British Academy, 2019)
ed., with I. Maclean, The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age: Comparative Approaches (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
Published articles/book chapters
(with Scott Mandelborte), ‘Newton as Theologian, Artisan, and Chamber-Fellow: Some New Evidence’, in Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar, ed. Anna Marie Roos and Gideon Manning (Springer, 2023).
‘From Palestine to Göttingen (via India): Hebrew Matthew and the Origins of the Synoptic Problem’, Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 7 (2022).
‘The Uses of Ancient Philosophy’, in The Cambridge History of the Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, ed. D. Jalobeanu and D. Miller (Cambridge: CUP, 2021).
‘Early Modern Biblical Criticism and the Republic of Letters’, Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 6 (2021).
‘Newton on the Rules of Philosophising and Hypotheses: New Evidence, New Conclusions’, ISIS, 112 (2021).
‘Isaac Newton’s “De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum”: its Purpose in Historical Context’, Annals of Science, 78 (2021).
‘Confessionalisation and erudition in early modern Europe: a comparative overview’, in Confessionalisation and erudition in early modern Europe: an episode in the history of the humanities, ed. N. Hardy and D. Levitin, Proceedings of the British Academy (Oxford University Press, 2019).
(with S. Mandelbrote), ‘Becoming heterodox in seventeenth-century Cambridge: the case of Isaac Newton. With an edition of Newton’s divinity disputation’ (30,000 words), in Confessionalisation and erudition in early modern Europe: an episode in the history of the humanities, ed. N. Hardy and D. Levitin, Proceedings of the British Academy (Oxford University Press, 2019).
‘Teaching Political Thought in the Restoration Divinity Faculty: Avant-Garde Episcopacy, the Two Kingdoms and Christian Liberty’, in Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie, ed. Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim Harris, and John Marshall (Boydell: Woodbridge, 2019).
‘Early modern experimental philosophy: a non-Anglocentric overview’, in Experiment, Speculation, and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Peter Anstey and Alberto Vanzo (New York: Routledge, 2019). [PDF] [I had always hoped that one of the functions of this essay would be as a useful overview for students. But since the volume in which it appears is rather expensive and not always available even in libraries, and since it employs an unusual citation system that makes cross-referencing difficult, I am providing this final draft as a freely available download. However, I would ask that all citations of this essay in academic publications refer to the printed version, including specific page numbers].
‘What was the comparative history of religion in seventeenth-century Europe (and Beyond)? Pagan Monotheism/Pagan Animism, from T’ien to Tylor’, in Regimes of comparatism: Frameworks of Comparison in History, Religion and Anthropology, Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, ed. Renaud Gagné, Simon Goldhill, and Geoffrey Lloyd (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
‘”Radical” history writing in 1650s England: the case of John Beale’, in Radicalism and Dissent in the World of Protestant Reform, ed. Bridget Heal and Anorthe Kremers (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017).
‘Newton and scholastic philosophy’, British Journal for the History of Science, 49 (2016).
‘Egyptology, the limits of antiquarianism, and the origins of conjectural history, c. 1680–1740′, History of European Ideas, 41 (2015).
‘”Made up from many experimentall notions”. The Society of Apothecaries, medical humanism, and the rhetoric of experience in 1630s London’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 70 (2014).
‘Rethinking English physico-theology: Samuel Parker’s Tentamina de Deo (1665)’, Early Science and Medicine, 19 (2014).
‘The experimentalist as humanist: Robert Boyle on the history of philosophy’, Annals of Science, 71 (2014).
‘John Spencer’s De legibus Hebraeorum (1683–85) and ‘enlightened’ sacred history: a new interpretation’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 76 (2013).
‘Edmund Halley and the Eternity of the World Revisited’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 67 (2013).
‘John Locke’, in The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, ed. Karla Pollmann (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
‘From sacred history to the history of religion: Pagans, Jews and Christians in European Historiography from the Reformation to “Enlightenment”‘, Historical Journal, 55 (2012).
‘Matthew Tindal’s Rights of the Christian Church (1706) and the Church-State Relationship’, Historical Journal, 54 (2011).
‘Reconsidering John Sergeant’s Attacks on Locke’s Essay’, Intellectual History Review, 20 (2010).
Forthcoming
‘Freeing Mathematical Science from Philosophy: A Comparison of Hellenistic Greece, the Islamicate World, and Early Modern Europe’, in Comparative Explorations: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Lloyd’s 90th Birthday, ed. Arthur Harris and Jingyi Zhao (Cambridge: forthcoming).
‘Newton the Neo-Confucian: or Why it Might Have Been Better for Everyone had Newton Never Written the General Scholium’, in Isaac Newton’s General Scholium, ed. S. Ducheyne, S. Mandelbrote and S. Snobelen (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).
‘The Invention of “Western” Philosophy’, in Questioning Western Philosophy, ed. Lea Cantor and Joshua Platzky-Miller (Oxford, forthcoming).
‘The Presocratics 1450–1800’, in The Routledge Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy, ed. Jenny Bryan, Lea Cantor, and Shaul Tor (Routledge, forthcoming).
In preparation
(with Anthony Milton), University Disputations and Academic Freedom in Early Modern Europe.
(with Scott Mandelbrote), The Religious Awakening of Isaac Newton, with an edition and translation of the Notebook of John Wickins, Newton’s Roommate (Cambridge: CUP). This book will be based on a wonderful recent discovery: learn more about it here.
Dmitri Levitin 