World Makers

Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth

Szerző: William Poole

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Peter Lang Ltd

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When educated men in the seventeenth century thought about the Earth on which they stood, they might...

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Szerző

William Poole

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2017

oldal

256

EAN

9781906165031

ISBN

1906165033

Enbook ID

15664605

Kiadó

Peter Lang Ltd

Súly

392

Méretek

234 x 158 x 17

Teljes leírás

When educated men in the seventeenth century thought about the Earth on which they stood, they might ask themselves the following questions. When was the world created? Why? How? Out of what? Where did people come from? Do we all share the same origin? How were other living things generated? Can species vary at all? What are fossils? The common answers to these questions were rooted in the Bible. The world was made around the year 4000 BC by the direct command of God; people all come from Adam and Eve; species do not vary and fossils are inorganic in origin. Most people assumed that the teachings of theology and of natural philosophy (what we would later term «science») were both continuous and harmonious. But there were radical new answers to these questions of origin too. This is the story of how the emerging discipline of experimental philosophy reacted to the opening chapters of the book of Genesis to interpret the physical origin, present status, and final destination of the Earth. The Royal Society of London, created in 1660 «for the improving of natural knowledge», was where these bold new answers to old questions were formulated, discussed, contested, and modified, by men such as Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Edmond Halley, and Thomas Burnet.

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