The Christian PhilosopherUniversity of Illinois Press, 1994 - 488 страница The prominent Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather published The Christian Philosopher in 1721, eight years after he had been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. The first comprehensive book on science written by an American, it was intended to demonstrate the harmony between science and religion. Mather surveyed all the known sciences from astronomy and physics to human anatomy. He presented evidence that both celestial and terrestrial phenomena imply an intelligent designer. Winton Solberg's introduction places Mather's treatise in its widest historical context. In addition to tracing the origins and sources of Mather's work, Solberg analyzes the book's contents, its reception, and its significance in American intellectual and cultural history. This edition returns Mather to his rightful place in American thought, as a deeply religious intellectual whose warm reception of the new science helped bridge the gap between the medieval worldview and the scientific revolution of Copernicus and Newton. |
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... Globe should be steddy , and perpetually parallel to itself ; not carelesly tumbling this way and that way , as it might happen : and that the Posture of the Axis be inclining as it is , and not perpendicular to a Plane going thro the ...
... Globe should be steddy , and perpetually parallel to itself ; not carelesly tumbling this way and that way , as it might happen : and that the Posture of the Axis be inclining as it is , and not perpendicular to a Plane going thro the ...
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... Globe is most probably that of an Oblate Spheroid . It swells towards the Equatorial Parts , and flats towards the Polar ; according to Sir Isaac Newton , the Diameter of the Globe 75 is about thirty - four Miles longer than the Axis ...
... Globe is most probably that of an Oblate Spheroid . It swells towards the Equatorial Parts , and flats towards the Polar ; according to Sir Isaac Newton , the Diameter of the Globe 75 is about thirty - four Miles longer than the Axis ...
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... Globe of the Earth at this day ! But now to solve the Phænomena ! We may reckon the external Parts of our Globe as a Shell , the internal as a Nucleus , or an inner Globe included within ours ; and between these a fluid Medium , which ...
... Globe of the Earth at this day ! But now to solve the Phænomena ! We may reckon the external Parts of our Globe as a Shell , the internal as a Nucleus , or an inner Globe included within ours ; and between these a fluid Medium , which ...
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Preface | xi |
Acknowledgments | xv |
Introduction | xix |
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