1 the "mathematization" of nature

 

2 Newton and his contemporaries

 

3 a metaphysical revelation that justifies the works of God to man

 

4 the "Author of Nature"

 

5 This Sisypean undertaking

 

6 a would-be meta-discourse

 

7 an epistemological quest

 

8 schemes of hierarchical structuring

 

9 the language in a post-lapsarian world

 

10 Order, in other words

 

11 The more remote God becomes, the greater the mediation

 

12 and teleologically unanswerable questions