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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... quotes George Buchanan , a renowned Scottish Renaissance humanist , in order to preserve perspective . Buchanan drew much of his knowledge in astronomy from classical authors whose texts were newly printed in Greek and Latin editions ...
... quotes George Buchanan , a renowned Scottish Renaissance humanist , in order to preserve perspective . Buchanan drew much of his knowledge in astronomy from classical authors whose texts were newly printed in Greek and Latin editions ...
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... quote the Latin phrase . Mather probably borrowed it from or was reminded of it by Alsted , p . 399 , which quotes a line from Ovid , Metamorphoses , 1.138-40 , without attribution . My translation . Ovid wrote that not only did men ...
... quote the Latin phrase . Mather probably borrowed it from or was reminded of it by Alsted , p . 399 , which quotes a line from Ovid , Metamorphoses , 1.138-40 , without attribution . My translation . Ovid wrote that not only did men ...
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... quotes " the Poet " : " Jupiter esse pium statuit quodcunque juvaret . " ( " Jupiter fixed that virtue was to be in whatever brought us pleasure . " ) The quotation is from Ovid , The Heroides , 4.133 . Barker also quotes " O Sanctas ...
... quotes " the Poet " : " Jupiter esse pium statuit quodcunque juvaret . " ( " Jupiter fixed that virtue was to be in whatever brought us pleasure . " ) The quotation is from Ovid , The Heroides , 4.133 . Barker also quotes " O Sanctas ...
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