Francis Lee
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    Francis Lee

    Francis Lee(1661–1719)

    English scholar and writer connected with the Philadelphian circle and early Enlightenment religious culture. He produced learned dissertations and helped edit and transmit visionary and theosophical texts. Lee's work exemplifies how scholarship, mathematics, and spiritual speculation could be held together in a single intellectual vocation.

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    Apoleipomena [in Greek], or Theological, Mathematical, and Physical Dissertations

    The Dial's edition: London, 1752

    A collected volume of Lee's 'left-behind' writings, framed as wide-ranging dissertations that blend learned theology with natural-philosophical and mathematical interests. A prominent component is an extended critical commentary on difficult passages in Genesis, explicitly aimed at defending the divine authority of Moses against skeptics, deists, and other critics.