1. For discussions of this point, see Shapiro BarbaraProbability and Certainty in Seventeenth Century England: A Study of the Relationships Between Natural Science, Religion, History, Law and LiteraturePrinceton, New Jersey 1983 61 66 153–4, 111–18; Roger L. Emerson, ‘Latitudinarianism and the English Deists’ inDeism, Masonry and the Enlightenment, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay (Dover, 1987), pp. 19–48.
2. Hett , Francis Paget , ed. 1932.The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722)49–49. London 52, 54.
3. Sibbald . 1932.The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722)Edited by: Hett , Francis Paget . 54–54. London the text reads ‘crepuscular’, but has been corrected from Sir Robert Sibbald, ‘Memoirs of My Life’, Edinburgh University Library [hereafter EUL] Laing MS III. 535 (unpaginated). There is another copy of this in the National Library of Scotland [hereafter NLS] (Advocates' MS 33.5.1) which served as the basis for James Maidment'sRemains…containing The autobiography of Sir Robert Sibbald Knt., M.D.(Edinburgh, 1833) and Hett'sMemoirs. Both MSS are transcriptions of Sibbald's lost original.