玛格丽特·雅各布，Margaret C. Jacob is professor of History at UCLA. She studies the impact of the Newtonian synthesis on religion, political ideology, industrial development and cultural practices. She has worked extensively on Newton's immediate followers, on freethinkers, freemasons, and on Dutch and French Newtonians. Her books include Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe (2006), The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions (2005), Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth Century Europe (1991), The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution (1988), The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (2003, new edition), and The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720 (1976).