The Unity of Worlds and of Nature: Three Essays on the Spirit of Inductive Philosophy; the Plurality of Worlds; and the Philosophy of Creation

Powell, Baden

ISBN 10: 1108004563 / ISBN 13: 9781108004565

Edité par Cambridge Univ Pr, 2009

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1st edition. 582 pages. 8.43x5.51x1.57 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Unity of Worlds and of Nature: Three Essays on the Spirit of Inductive Philosophy; the Plurality of Worlds; and the Philosophy of Creation
• Éditeur: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1108004563
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781108004565
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Brand New
• Poids: 1,01 kilogramme

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Synopsis

A work on the impact of science on religion, praised as 'masterly' by Charles Darwin.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Baden Powell (1796–1860) was a mathematician who held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford, and was also a priest in the Church of England. He was a defender of the claims of new scientific discoveries in the face of Christian orthodoxy well before Darwin published the theory of evolution, and drew a clear distinction in his thinking and writing between moral and physical phenomena, as being independent of each other and the fields of completely different study. Darwin himself wrote, in the 'Historical Sketch' at the beginning of the third edition of On the Origin of Species, 'The 'Philosophy of Creation' has been treated in a masterly manner by the Rev. Baden Powell, in his Essays on the Unity of Worlds, 1855. Nothing can be more striking than the manner in which he shows that the introduction of new species is 'a regular, not a casual phenomenon'.'