Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements vii;
Notes on the Contributors ix:
Introduction: Nature, Law, and Natural Law in Early Modern Europe;
Lorraine Daston and Michael Stolleis 1;
1 From Limits to Laws: The Transformation of Ancient Atomism in Early Modern Philosophy;
Catherine Wilson 13;
2 Expressing Nature¿s Regularities and their Determinations in the Late Renaissance;
Ian Maclean 29;
3 The Legitimation of Law through God, Tradition, Will, Nature and Constitution;
Michael Stolleis 45;
4 The Concept of (Natural) Law in the Doctrine of Law and Natural Law of the Early Modern Era;
Jan Schröder 57;
5 ¿Lex certa¿ and ¿ius certum¿: The Search for Legal Certainty and Security;
Heinz Mohnhaupt 73;
6 Crimen Contra Naturam ;
Andreas Roth 89;
7 Nature¿s Regularity in some Protestant Natural Philosophy Textbooks 1530¿1630;
Sachiko Kusukawa 105;
8 Natural Order and Divine Salvation: Protestant Conceptions in Early Modern Germany ;(1550¿1750) Anne-Charlott Trepp 123;
9 Natural Law and Celestial Regularities from Copernicus to Kepler;
Gerd Grasshof 143;
10 The Approach to a Physical Concept of Law in the Early Modern Period: A Comparison between Matthias Bernegger and Richard Cumberland.;
Hubert Treiber163;
11 Leibniz¿s Concept of jus naturale and lex naturalis ¿ defined ¿with geometric certainty¿;
Klaus Luig183;
12 Controversies on Nature as Universal Legality (1680-1710);
Sophie Roux199;
13 From Principles to Regularities: Tracing ¿Laws of Nature¿ in Early Modern France and England/
Friedrich Steinle 215;
14 Unruly Weather: Natural Law Confronts Natural Variability;
Lorraine Daston 233;
15 In Search of the Newton of the Moral World;
Cathérine Larrère 249;
16 Deus Legislator;
Jean-Robert Armogathe 265
Bibliography - Primary Sources 279;
Bibliography - Secondary Sources 279;
Index 327.