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Author : Marguerite Carozzi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Voltaire's Attitude Toward Geology written by Marguerite Carozzi and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Sherwood Libby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Attitude of Voltaire to Magic and the Sciences written by Margaret Sherwood Libby and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the attitudes of the philosopher, Voltaire, and how they were influenced by his studies of Newton. Specifically looked at are his beliefs on physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology and even magic and medicine.
Author : Rachel Laudan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924750
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book From Mineralogy to Geology written by Rachel Laudan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-02-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fine treatment of this critical time in geology's history. Although it goes against our standard histories of the field, Laudan defends her views convincingly. Her style is direct, with carefully reasoned personal opinions and interpretations clearly defined."—Jere H. Lipps, The Scientist
Author : Otis Fellows
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600039420
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Diderot Studies written by Otis Fellows and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1967 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rhoda Rappaport
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801433863
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (338 download)
Download or read book When Geologists Were Historians, 1665-1750 written by Rhoda Rappaport and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She begins with the establishment of formal institutions of international exchange, including the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London and the Journal des savants in Paris, and shows how new media fostered increasing communication among scientists, particularly in England, France, and Italy.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190678895
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book On the Edge of Eternity written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonly assumed that the creation story of Genesis and its chronology were the only narratives openly available in medieval and early modern Europe and that the discovery of geological time in the eighteenth century came as a momentous breakthrough that shook the faith in the historical accuracy of the Bible. Historians of science, mainstream geologists, and Young Earth creationists alike all share the assumption that the notion of an ancient Earth was highly heterodox in the pre-modern era. The old age of the world is regarded as the offspring of a secularized science. In this book, Ivano Dal Prete radically revises the commonplace history of deep time in Western culture. He argues that the chronology of the Bible always coexisted with alternative approaches that placed the origin of the Earth into a far, undetermined (or even eternal) past. From the late Middle Ages, these notions spread freely not only in universities and among the learned, but even in popular works of meteorology, geology, literature, and art that made them easily accessible to a vernacular and scientifically illiterate public. Religious authorities did not regard these notions as particularly problematic, let alone heretical. Neither the authors nor their numerous readers thought that holding such views was incompatible with their Christian faith. While the appeal of theories centered on the biblical Flood and on a young Earth gained popularity over the course of the seventeenth century, their more secular alternatives remained vital and debated. Enlightenment thinkers, however, created a myth of a Christian tradition that uniformly rejected the antiquity of the world, as opposed to a new secular science ready to welcome it. Largely unchallenged for almost three centuries, that account solidified over time into a still dominant truism. Based on a wealth of mostly unexplored sources, On the Edge of Eternity offers an original and nuanced account of the history of deep time that illuminates the relationship between the history of science and Christianity in the medieval and early modern periods, with lasting implications for Western society.
Author : Henry Woodward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Geological Magazine written by Henry Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Cutler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780525947080
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Seashell on the Mountaintop written by Alan Cutler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and accomplishments of a 17th-century scientist-turned-priest are explored in this story of science, sainthood, and the humble genius who forever changed the understanding of the Earth and created a new science: geology.
Author : Rhoda Rappaport
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000949133
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Studies on Eighteenth-Century Geology written by Rhoda Rappaport and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a scholarly career spanning five decades, Rhoda Rappaport published perceptive analyses of science in the culture of early Modern Europe, France in particular, with strong emphasis on geology's early development. Of the sixteen papers in this volume, most focus on aspects of geology's cultivation during the 'long' 18th century, from the times of Hooke, Leibniz, and Fontenelle to those of Lavoisier, Werner, and Cuvier. Among the topics most closely treated here are the French mineralogical mapping project initiated by Guettard; contemporary efforts to interpret the earth historically (such as through Noah's Flood); and difficulties presented by the vocabulary often used in traditional histories of geology. Much of Rappaport's research addressed two problems prevalent within 18th-century earth science: the proper understanding of petrifactions, or fossil objects; and struggles to establish reliable knowledge of the earth's past. She also examined the chemistry of G.-F. Rouelle, which she saw as effectively an attempt at systematic comprehension of the entire mineral realm; trans-national features of scientific pursuits as illustrated in the careers of the naturalist Vallisneri and the mineralogist (and philosophe) d'Holbach; and aspects of science's promotion in France through government patronage and academic privilege.
Author : Alfred Owen Aldridge
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400866952
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Voltaire and the Century of Light written by Alfred Owen Aldridge and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an approach different from (hat of earlier biographers, A. Owen Aldridge examines Voltaire's literary and intellectual career chronologically, using the methods both of comparative literature and of the history of ideas. The resulting biography portrays a fascinating personality as well as a great writer and thinker. Voltaire is revealed not only through his correspondence, here extensively quoted, but through the statements others made about him in anecdotes, memoirs, and other contemporary documents. New information is introduced regarding Voltaire's sojourn in England, his later relations with English men of letters, his domestic turmoils at the court of Frederick the Great, and his contact with French contemporaries such as Montesquieu and Diderot. For the first time in any biography, attention is given to Voltaire's extensive knowledge of Spanish literature and its influence on his own work, particularly Candide. Voltaire is portrayed as a conscious participant in the Enlightenment. In his early years he was interested primarily in aesthetics and abstract philosophy; later, he passionately dedicated himself to humanitarian causes with ideological implications. Professor Aldridge brings forward evidence pointing to the contrast between these two periods in Voltaire's life. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Ira O. Wade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400877822
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Intellectual Development of Voltaire written by Ira O. Wade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive study of Voltaire's intellectual development, he provides the first full treatment of the effect of the English experience on Voltaire, the diversity of activity at Cirey, and the relation of Voltaire’s thought to 17th- and 18th-century philosophy. By devoting considerable attention to the movements, the personal relationships, and the environments that influenced Voltaire, Professor Wade is able to illuminate the sources of Voltaire’s thought and show at the same time how he wove them into a unique synthesis. A final chapter in the book contains a general summation of the importance of Voltaireanism as a philosophy of life. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Renaud Morieux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316489736
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Channel written by Renaud Morieux and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century, in both a metaphorical and a material sense. Instead of arguing that Britain's insularity kept it spatially and intellectually segregated from the Continent, Renaud Morieux focuses on the Channel as a zone of contact. The 'narrow sea' was a shifting frontier between states and a space of exchange between populations. This richly textured history shows how the maritime border was imagined by cartographers and legal theorists, delimited by state administrators and transgressed by migrants. It approaches French and English fishermen, smugglers and merchants as transnational actors, whose everyday practices were entangled. The variation of scales of analysis enriches theoretical and empirical understandings of Anglo-French relations, and reassesses the question of Britain's deep historical connections with Europe.
Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of London written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obituary notices of deceased fellows were included in v. 7-64; v. 75 is made up of "obituaries of deceased fellows, chiefly for the period 1898-1904, with a general index to previous obituary notices"; the notices have been continued in subsequent volumes as follows: v. 78a, 79b, 80a-b- 86a-b, 87a 88a-b.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Earth Sciences History written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William L. Craig
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666772666
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy written by William L. Craig and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the historical background to its companion volume, Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus. It traces the history of historical apologetics for Jesus’ resurrection from the first century through the twentieth century, focusing on its apogee during the Deist controversy in Europe. It explores which of the traditional arguments on behalf of the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection are obsolete and which still merit consideration today. It includes a discussion of the problem of miracles, both their possibility and identification, which forms the backdrop for any contemporary case for the resurrection.
