Robert Greene was a natural philosopher who sided with the Tories after the Glorious Revolution (1688). He went on to write anti-materialist works against Newtonian mechanical philosophy, principally in ‘The Principles of the Philosophy of the Expansive and Contractive Forces’ (1727)
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John Gascoigne, Greene, Robert (c.16781730), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11419, accessed 4 July 2013].
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