Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe : Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral and Natural Philosophy / Lorraine Daston.

includes index and biblioraphy

1 From Limits to Laws: The Construction of the Nomological Image of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy 13 Catherine Wilson 2 Expressing Nature`s Regularities and their Determinations in the Late Renaissance 29 I an Maclean 3 The Legitimation of Law through God, Tradition, Will, Nature and Constitution 45 Michael Stolleis 4 The Concept of (Natural) Law in the Doctrine of Law and Natural Law of the Early Modern Era 57 Jan Schroder 5 `Lex certa` and Mus certum`: The Search for Legal Certainty and Security 73 Heinz Mohnhaupt 6 Crimen contra naturam 89 Andreas Roth 1 Nature`s Regularity in Some Protestant Natural Philosophy Textbooks 1530-1630 105 Sachiko Kusukawa 8 Natural Order and Divine Salvation: Protestant Conceptions in Early Modern Germany (1550-1750) 123 Anne-Charlott Trepp 9 Natural Law and Celestial Regularities from Copernicus to Kepler 143 GerdGrafihoff 10 The Approach to a Physical Concept of Law in the Early Modern Period: A Comparison between Matthias Bernegger and Richard Cumberland 163 Hubert Treiber 11 Leibniz`s Concept of jus naturale and lex naturalis - denned `with geometric certainty` 183 Klaus Luig 12 Controversies on Nature as Universal Legality (1680-1710) 199 Sophie Roux 13 From Principles to Regularities: Tracing `Laws of Nature` in Early Modern France and England 215 Friedrich Steinle 14 Unruly Weather: Natural Law Confronts Natural Variability 233 Lorraine Daston \ 5 In Search of the Newton of the Moral World: The Intelligibility of Society and the Naturalist Model of Law from the End of the Seventeenth Century to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century 249 Catherine Larrere 16 Deus legislator 265 Jean-Robert Armogathe