Major Works by More

• Psychodia Platonica; or, a Platonicall Song of the Soul, consisting of foure severall poems (Cambridge, 1642).
• Democritus Platonissans; or, an Essay upon the Infinity of Worlds out of Platonick Principles (Cambridge, 1646).
• Philosophicall Poems (Cambridge, 1647).
• [Alazonomastix Philalethes], Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica and Anima Magica Abscondita [by Eugenius Philalethes, i.e. Thomas Vaughan] (London, 1650).
• [Alazonomastix Philalethes], The Second Lash of Alazonomastix: Conteining a Solid and Serious Reply to a very uncivill Answer to certain Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica… (London, 1651).
• An Antidote Against Atheism, Or an Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Mind of Man, whether there be not a God (London, 1653). Enlaged second edition, with an appendix (London, 1655). (Scholar)
• Conjectura Cabbalistica: Or, A conjectural Essay of interpreting the minde of Moses according to a threefold Cabbala, viz., literal, philosophical, mystical, or divinely moral (London, 1653).
• Enthusiasmus Triumphatus, Or, A Discourse of the Nature, Causes, Kinds, and Cure, of Enthusiasme… (London, 1656).
• The Immortality of the Soul, So farre forth as it is demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason (London, 1659).
• An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness… (London, 1660).
• A Collection of Severall Philosophical Writings of Dr Henry More… (London, 1662).
• A Modest Inquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, The First Part, Containing a Careful and Impartial Delineation of the True Idea of Antichristianism… (London, 1664).
• Synopsis Prophetica; or, The Second Part of the Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity: Containing a Compendious Prospect into Those Prophecies of the Holy Scripture, wherein The Reign of Antichrist… is prefigured or foretold (London, 1664).
• The Apology of Dr Henry More… wherein is contained As Well a more General Account of the Manner and Scope of his Writings, As A Particular Explication of several Passages in his Grand Mystery of Godliness (London, 1664).
• Enchiridion Ethicum, praecipua moralis philosophiae rudimenta complectens… (London, 1667).
• Divine Dialogues, Containing sundry Disquisitions and Instructions Concerning the Attributes and Providence of God in the World… 2 vols (London, 1668).
• An Exposition of the Seven Epistles to the Seven Churches… (London, 1669).
• Philosophiae Teutonicae Censura… (London, 1670).
• Enchiridion Metaphysicum; sive, de rebus incorporeia succincta & luculenta dissertatio… (London, 1671). Translated as: Henry More’s Manual of Metaphysics… with an Introduction and Notes by A. Jacob, 2 vols, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1995. (Scholar)
• Opera omnia…, 3 vols (London, 1675–79).
• Remarks upon two late ingenious Discourses: the one, an Essay touching the Gravitation and non-Gravitation of Fluid Bodies; the other, touching the Torricellian Experiment by Sir Matthew Hale, so far as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicum (London, 1676).
• Apocalypsis apocalypseos; or, the Revelation of St John the Divine unveiled… (London, 1680).
• Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions. In Two Parts. The First reating their Possibility; The Second of their Real Existence (London, 1681, expanded 1682).
• Two Choice and Useful Treatises: the one Lux Orientalis; Or An Enquiry into the Opinions of the Eastern Sages Concerning the Praeexistence of Souls… [by Joseph Glanvill] The Other, A Discourse of Truth, By the late Reverend Dr. Rust… with Annotations on them both (London, 1682). More’s annotations are separately paginated—reference in article is to his annotations. (Scholar)
• A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings… the Fourth Edition, corrected and much enlarged, London, 1712.

Other Primary Sources

• Baxter, Richard, 1682, Of the immortality of mans soule, and the nature of it and other spirits. Two discourses: one in a letter to an unknown doubter; the other in reply to Dr Henry More’s animadversions on a private letter to him… London. (Scholar)
• Boyle, Robert, 1999, “An Hydrostatical discourse occasion’d by some objections of Dr H. More in his Enchiridion Metaphysicum” [1672], in Boyle, R., 1999, The Works of Robert Boyle, edited by M. Hunter and E. B. Davis, volume 7, London: Pickering and Chatto. (Scholar)
• Boyle, Robert, 2000, Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature [1686], in Boyle, R., 2000, The Works of Robert Boyle, edited by M. Hunter and E. B. Davis, volume 10, London: Pickering and Chatto. (Scholar)
• Charleton, Walter, 1652, Darknes of Atheism dispelled by the Light of Nature, London. (Scholar)
• Conway, Anne, 1996, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Descartes, René, 1649, Discourse of a Method, for the well-guiding of reason, and the discovery of truth in the sciences…, London. (Scholar)
• –––, 1966, Oeuvres, C. Adam and P. Tannery (eds.), Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
• –––, 1991, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume 3, The Correspondence, edited and translated by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, D. Murdoch and A. Kenny, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Digby, Kenelm, 1644, Two Treatises: in the one of which, the nature of bodies, in the other, the nature of man’s soule, is looked into …, Paris. (Scholar)
• Hale, Mathew, 1676, Remarks upon Two Late Ingenious Discourses: The One an Essay Touching the gravitation and non-Gravitation of Fluid Bodies, the Other, Observations touching the Torricellian Experiment, so far forth as they may Concern Any Passages in His Enchiridion Metaphysicum, London: Walter Kettilby. (Scholar)
• Newton, Isaac, [1671] 1962, “De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum”, in Unpublished Papers of Isaac Newton, edited by A. R. Hall and M. B. Hall, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 90–156. (Scholar)
• –––, [1687, 1713] 1999, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, translated by I. B. Cohen and Anne Whitman, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Nicolson, M. H. (ed.), 1992, The Conway Letters: The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their Friends, 1642–1684 [1930], reissued with additional material and an introduction by Sarah Hutton, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Oldenburg, Henry, [1671–1672] 1971, Correspondence (Volume 8), edited by A. R Hall and M. B. Hall, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. (Scholar)
• Parker, Samuel, A Free and Impartial Censure of the Platonick Philosophie, Oxford, 1666.
• Voltaire, [1759] 2005, Candide, or Optimism, translated by Burton Raffel, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• Vaughan, Thomas, 1984, The works of Thomas Vaughan, edited by Alan Rudrum, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Ward, Richard, 2000, The Life of Henry More (Parts 1 and 2), edited by Sarah Hutton, Cecil Courney, Michelle Courtney, Robert Crocker and A. Rupert Hall, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)

Secondary Sources

• Agostini, I., 2017, “Descartes and More on the Infinity of the World”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25: 878–96. (Scholar)
• Almond, P. C., 1993, “Henry More and the Apocalypse”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 54: 189–200. (Scholar)
• Cassirer, E., 1953, The Platonic Renaissance in England, translated by J. P. Pettigrove, Edinburgh: Nelson. (Scholar)
• Cohen, L. D., 1936, “Descartes and Henry More on the Beast-Machine – A Translation of their Correspondence pertaining to Animal Automatism”, Annals of Science, 1: 48–61. (Scholar)
• Copenhaver, B. P., 1980, “Jewish Theologies of Space in the Scientific Revolution: Henry More, Joseph Raphson, Isaac Newton and their Predecessors”, Annals of Science, 37: 489–548. (Scholar)
• Coudert, A. P., 1990, “Henry More and Witchcraft”, in Hutton (ed.), Henry More (1614–1687), pp. 115–36. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, “Henry More, the Kabbalah, and the Quakers”, in R. Kroll, R. Ashcraft, and P. Zagorin (eds), Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England, 1640–1700,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 31–67. (Scholar)
• Cristofolini, P., 1974, Cartesiani e sociniani: Studio su Henry More, Urbino: Argalia. (Scholar)
• Crocker, R., 1990, “Mysticism and Enthusiasm in Henry More”, in Hutton (ed.), Henry More (1614–1687), pp. 137–56. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, Henry More, 1614–1687: A Biography of the Cambridge Platonist, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. (Scholar)
• Gabbey, A., 1982, “Philosophia Cartesiana Triumphata: Henry More (1646–1671)”, in N. Davis and T. Lennon (eds), Problems of Cartesianism, Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press, pp. 171–250. (Scholar)
• –––, 1990, “Henry More and the Limits of Mechanism”, in Hutton (ed.), Henry More (1614–1687), pp. 19–36. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, “Cudworth, More, and the Mechanical Analogy”, in R. Kroll, R. Ashcraft, and P. Zagorin (eds), Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England, 1640–1700, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 109–27. (Scholar)
• Grant, E., 1981, Much Ado About Nothing: Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Grobet, L. B., 2010, “Is Descartes a Materialist? The Descartes-More Controversy about the Universe as Indefinite”, Dialogue, 49: 517–26. (Scholar)
• Guinsberg, A. M., 1980, “Henry More, Thomas Vaughan and the Late Renaissance Magical Tradition”, Ambix, 27: 36–58. (Scholar)
• Hall, A. R., 1990, Henry More: Magic, Religion, and Experiment, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Reissued as Henry More and the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Scholar)
• Hedley, D. and Hengstermann, C. (eds), An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists: Sources and Commentary, London and New York: Routledge.
• Hengstermann, C., 2017, “Pre-existence and Universal Salvation – the Origenian Renaissance in Early Modern Cambridge”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25: 971–89. (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, “God or Space and Nature? Henry More’s Panentheism of Space and Panpsychism of Life and Nature”, in G. Brüntrup, B.P. Göcke, and L. Jaskolla (eds), Panentheism and Panpsychism: Philosophy of Religion Meets Philosophy of Mind, Leiden, Brill, pp. 157–89. (Scholar)
• Henry, J., 1986, “A Cambridge Platonist’s Materialism: Henry More and the Concept of Soul”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 49: 172–95. (Scholar)
• –––, 1987, “Medicine and Pneumatology: Henry More, Richard Baxter and Francis Glisson’s Treatise on the Energetic Nature of Substance”, Medical History, 31: 15–40. (Scholar)
• –––, 1989, “The Matter of Souls: Medical Theory and Theology in Seventeenth-Century England”, in R. K. French and A. Wear (eds), The Medical Revolution in the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 87–113. (Scholar)
• –––, 1990, “Henry More versus Robert Boyle: The Spirit of Nature and the Nature of Providence”, in Hutton (ed.), Henry More (1614–1687), pp. 55–76. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993, “Henry More and Newton’s Gravity”, History of Science, 31: 83–97. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “Omnipotence and Thinking Matter: John Locke and the Use of Reason in Religion”, in D. Giovannozzi and M. Veneziani (eds), Materia, Atti del XIII Colloquio Internazionale del Lessico Intelletuale Europeo (Roma, 7–9 gennaio, 2010), Florence: Leo S. Olschki, pp. 357–79. (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, “Primary and Secondary Causation in Samuel Clarke’s and Isaac Newton’s Theories of Gravity”, Isis, 111: 542–61. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “Hobbes’s Mechanical Philosophy and Its English Critics”, in M.P. Adams (ed.), A Companion to Hobbes, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 381–97. (Scholar)
• –––, 2022, “Sir Kenelm Digby, the Immortality of the Soul, and Philosophical Theology in Seventeenth-Century England”, in L. Georgescu and A.T. Adriaenssen (eds), The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), Cham: Springer, pp. 89–112. (Scholar)
• Hutton, S., 1984, “Reason and Revelation in the Cambridge Platonists, and their Reception of Spinoza”, in K. Gründer and W. Schmidt-Biggeman (eds), Spinoza in der Frühzeit seiner Religiösen Wirkung, Heidelberg: Lambert Schneider. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1990, Henry More (1614–1687): Tercentenary Studies, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1994, “Henry More and the Apocalypse”, in M. Wilks (ed.), Prophecy and Eschatology, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 131–40. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, “Henri More et Descartes: une copie manuscrite de leur correspondance dans le Notebook de Thomas Clerke (1654)”, Bulletin cartésien, 49: 162–67. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “Reinventing the Vegetable Soul? More’s Spirit of Nature and Cudworth’s Plastic Nature Reconsidered”, in F. Baldassarri, and A. Blank (eds), Vegetative Powers, Cham, Springer, pp. 291–304. (Scholar)
• Jacob, A., 1991, Henry More’s Refutation of Spinoza, Hildesheim: Georg Olms. (Scholar)
• Joseph, J., 2019, “The Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of God”, in J.F. Finamore, and T. Nejeschleba (eds), Platonism and Its Legacy, Lydney: Prometheus Trust, pp. 369–86. (Scholar)
• –––, 2023, “Whither Natural Magic? Science, Witchcraft, and the Decline of Magic in Henry More”, Isis, 114: 299–316. (Scholar)
• Koyré, A., 1957, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
• Laerke, M., 2017, “Three Texts on the Kabbalah: More, Wachter, Leibniz, and the Philosophy of the Hebrews”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25: 1011–1030. (Scholar)
• Leech, D., 2013, The Hammer of the Cartesians: Henry More’s Philosophy of Spirit and the Origins of Modern Atheism, Leuwen: Peeters. (Scholar)
• Muratori, C., 2017, “‘In human shape to become the very beast!’ – Henry More on Animals”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25: 897–915. (Scholar)
• Reid, J., 2003, “Henry More on Material and Spiritual Extension”, Dialogue, 42: 531–58. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, “The Evolution of Henry More’s Theory of Divine Absolute Space”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 45: 79–102. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “The Spatial Presence of Spirits among the Cartesians”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 46: 91–118. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, The Metaphysics of Henry More, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, “The Cambridge Platonists: Material and Immaterial Substance”, in R. Copenhaver (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, London and New York: Routledge, 43–68. (Scholar)
• Sangiacomo, A., 2018, “Samuel Clarke on Agent Causation, Voluntarism, and Occasionalism”, Science in Context, 31: 421–56. (Scholar)
• Scott, A., 1991, Origen and the Life of the Stars: A History of an Idea , Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Sytsma, D. S., 2017, Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Taliaferro, C., 2005, Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Thomas, E., 2018, Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Thomson, A., 2008, Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Tulloch, J. H., 1874, Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols., Edinburgh. (Scholar)
• Webster, C., 1969, “Henry More and Descartes: Some New sources”, British Journal for the History of Science, 4: 359–77. (Scholar)