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The World Makers
Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth
Taschenbuch von William Poole
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
William Poole is Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, University of Oxford. His interests lie in the intellectual history of the early-modern period and its connections with scientific and literary questions.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: The Physics of Creation: The Biblical Inheritance ¿ The Aristotelian Inheritance ¿ The Paracelsian Inheritance ¿ The Cartesian and Gassendist Inheritances ¿ The Preadamite Hypothesis ¿ Chronology ¿ Flood and Ark ¿ The World Makers: Burnet, Woodward, Whiston ¿ Babel and the Rise of Nations ¿ Archaeology and the Silent Past ¿ Vicissitude and Geomorphology ¿ Fossils and Extinction ¿ Meteorology, Cartography, and Globes ¿ Magnetism and its Survival ¿ Conflagration and Millennium.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 252
Inhalt: 252 S.
ISBN-13: 9781906165031
ISBN-10: 1906165033
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 16503
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Poole, William
Hersteller: Peter Lang
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: William Poole
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.01.2017
Gewicht: 0,389 kg
preigu-id: 108233417
Über den Autor
William Poole is Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, University of Oxford. His interests lie in the intellectual history of the early-modern period and its connections with scientific and literary questions.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: The Physics of Creation: The Biblical Inheritance ¿ The Aristotelian Inheritance ¿ The Paracelsian Inheritance ¿ The Cartesian and Gassendist Inheritances ¿ The Preadamite Hypothesis ¿ Chronology ¿ Flood and Ark ¿ The World Makers: Burnet, Woodward, Whiston ¿ Babel and the Rise of Nations ¿ Archaeology and the Silent Past ¿ Vicissitude and Geomorphology ¿ Fossils and Extinction ¿ Meteorology, Cartography, and Globes ¿ Magnetism and its Survival ¿ Conflagration and Millennium.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 252
Inhalt: 252 S.
ISBN-13: 9781906165031
ISBN-10: 1906165033
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 16503
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Poole, William
Hersteller: Peter Lang
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: William Poole
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.01.2017
Gewicht: 0,389 kg
preigu-id: 108233417
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