Description: 1. The Appropriation of Joseph Mede: Millenarianism in the 1640s.- 2. Britain and the Beast: The Apocalypse and the Seventeenth-Century Debate about the Creation of the British State.- 3 A Whig Apocalypse: Astrology, Millenarianism, and Politics in England during the Restoration Crisis, 1678-1683.- 4. Robert Boyle on Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife.- 5. Robert Boyle, the Conversion of the Jews, and Millennial Expectations.- 6. The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Newton's Prophetic History.- 7 "The Mystery of This Restitution of All Things": Isaac Newton on the Return of the Jews.- 8. The Occult Bible: Hebraic Millenarianism in Eighteenth-Century England.- 9. David and Goliath: Jewish Conversion and Philo-Semitism in Late-Eighteenth-Century English Millenarian Thought.- 10. Caveat Emptor: Pre- and Postmillennialism in the Late Reformation Period.- 11. The Eschatology of Everyday Things, England, 1600-1800.

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