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Conway wrote the treatise in English in the 1670s, during years of severe illness. After her death Francis Mercury van Helmont published a Latin translation in Amsterdam in 1690; an English version translated back from the Latin appeared in 1692, as the original manuscript was lost. In short chapters she develops a metaphysics of God, Christ as a middle nature and creatures, drawing on Henry More and on the Kabbalah. The book names Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza as opponents. It was long overlooked; since the 1980s it has been edited and studied anew as an example of women’s philosophy in the early modern period.

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