Note 364 — Chapter IV · The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican System.
Reading edition
Milton: Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII, lines 159 et seq.
The great Puritan divine, John Owen (1616-1683), accepts the miracle of the sun's standing still without a word of reference to the new astronomy. (Works: II, 160.) Farrar states that Owen declared Newton's discoveries were against the evident testimonies of Scripture (Farrar: History of Interpretation: xviii.), but I have been unable to verify this statement. Owen died before the Principia was published in 1687.