Robert ILIFFE is Professor of History of Science at Oxford, Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, and a General Editor of the Newton Project. He is the author of A Very Short Introduction to Newton (OUP 2007) and Priest of Nature: the Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton, (OUP 2017), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Isaac Newton, 2nd ed. (CUP, 2016). He was editor of History of Science from 2001 and is currently co-editor of Annals of Science. He has published widely on topics in the history of early modern and Enlightenment scienceHe was editor of History of Science from 2001 and is currently co-editor of Annals of Science. He has published widely on topics in the history of early modern