Chemistry, Meteorology and the Function of Digestion Considered with Reference to Natural Theology - Couverture souple

Prout, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108000665 ISBN 13 : 9781108000666

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This 1834 treatise by the physician and biochemist William Prout supports the idea of a divine designer.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was the last of eight treatises from the 1830s that were commissioned by the Royal Society with advice from leading churchmen under the terms of a legacy from the Earl of Bridgewater. They aimed to support the idea that the natural world was made by a divine designer. William Prout, a respected physician and biochemist who specialised in nutrition and urology, argues in the introduction to this book that the biological adaptation seen in nature is divinely planned as a means to an end. His text covers chemistry, geology, the ocean, the planets, and processes of the human body. Remembered today for his discovery of hydrochloric acid in the gastric juices of animals, here Prout is on the front line in the early battles between scientific method and religious belief, a debate which continues to this day.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108000665
• ISBN 13: 9781108000666
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 608
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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