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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... observed also a small and a dark Filament , and the Zones growing a little darker , as they draw nearer to the Poles . 55 And some have observed in them something of Curvity , tho their Borders are perfectly round . Jupiter has Four ...
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... observed , is , to concoct and prepare the Sap for the Nourishment of the Fruit , and of the whole Plant ; not only that which ascends from the Root , but also what they take in from without , from the Dew , and from the Rain . 60 For ...
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... observed on the Isle of Rodrigo , is as admirable as unquestionable ; the Bird has Wings , but so small that it cannot fly with them , they serve to flutter with a mighty noise when they call one another ; they never lay but one Egg ...
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Preface | xi |
Acknowledgments | xv |
Introduction | xix |
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