Contents......Page 6
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
Introduction: Nature, Law and Natural Law in Early Modern Europe......Page 14
1 From Limits to Laws: The Construction of the Nomological Image of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy......Page 26
2 Expressing Nature’s Regularities and their Determinations in the Late Renaissance......Page 42
3 The Legitimation of Law through God, Tradition, Will, Nature and Constitution......Page 58
4 The Concept of (Natural) Law in the Doctrine of Law and Natural Law of the Early Modern Era......Page 70
5 ‘Lex certa’ and ‘ius certum’: The Search for Legal Certainty and Security......Page 86
6 Crimen contra naturam......Page 102
7 Nature’s Regularity in Some Protestant Natural Philosophy Textbooks 1530–1630......Page 118
8 Natural Order and Divine Salvation: Protestant Conceptions in Early Modern Germany (1550–1750)......Page 136
9 Natural Law and Celestial Regularities from Copernicus to Kepler......Page 156
10 The Approach to a Physical Concept of Law in the Early Modern Period: A Comparison between Matthias Bernegger and Richard Cumberland......Page 176
11 Leibniz’s Concept of jus naturale and lex naturalis – defined ‘with geometric certainty’......Page 196
12 Controversies on Nature as Universal Legality (1680–1710)......Page 212
13 From Principles to Regularities: Tracing ‘Laws of Nature’ in Early Modern France and England......Page 228
14 Unruly Weather: Natural Law Confronts Natural Variability......Page 246
15 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......Page 262
16 Deus legislator......Page 278
Bibliography......Page 292
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