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The Unseen Universe or, physical speculations on a future State. By P. G. Tait and B. Stewart
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The Unseen Universe, Or Physical Speculations on a Future State
Author: Balfour Stewart
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602061300
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Originally published anonymously, The Unseen Universe is a bold attempt to bring scientific and religious readers together in harmony. Themselves both accomplished scientists, Steward and Tait hoped to calm those Christians who had come to see science as heretical and show scientists how they could reconcile the advances in their field with a belief in God and the immortality of the soul. In this quest, they ask readers to consider the principle of Continuity, in which all the mechanics in nature have a cause that is also found in nature. And in following this chain of continuity backward, they inevitably come upon a prime mover, for if the universe is not eternal, then it must have been started, and this is where science and religion can share the same ground. Readers of science and philosophy will be called to ponder the nature of the universe for themselves. Scottish physicist BALFOUR STEWART (1828-1887) studied and wrote about the nature of radiation, meteorology, and magnetism. Scottish physicist PETER GUTHRIE TAIT (1831-1901) is most famous for writing, with Lord Kelvin, the groundbreaking physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867).
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602061300
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Originally published anonymously, The Unseen Universe is a bold attempt to bring scientific and religious readers together in harmony. Themselves both accomplished scientists, Steward and Tait hoped to calm those Christians who had come to see science as heretical and show scientists how they could reconcile the advances in their field with a belief in God and the immortality of the soul. In this quest, they ask readers to consider the principle of Continuity, in which all the mechanics in nature have a cause that is also found in nature. And in following this chain of continuity backward, they inevitably come upon a prime mover, for if the universe is not eternal, then it must have been started, and this is where science and religion can share the same ground. Readers of science and philosophy will be called to ponder the nature of the universe for themselves. Scottish physicist BALFOUR STEWART (1828-1887) studied and wrote about the nature of radiation, meteorology, and magnetism. Scottish physicist PETER GUTHRIE TAIT (1831-1901) is most famous for writing, with Lord Kelvin, the groundbreaking physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867).
The Fourth Dimension
Author: Rudy von Bitter Rucker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395393888
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A detailed description of what the fourth dimension would be like.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395393888
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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A detailed description of what the fourth dimension would be like.
The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Pages : 780
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Science and Spirituality
Author: David Knight
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000949559
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God. By the twenty-first century this comforting certainty has almost vanished. What caused such a cataclysmic change in attitudes to science and to the world? Science and Spirituality offers a new history of the interaction between Western science and faith, which explores their volatile connection, and challenges the myth of their being locked in inevitable conflict. Journeying from the French Revolution to the present day, and taking in such figures as Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Charles Darwin, Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelley and Stephen Hawking, David Knight shows how science evolved from medieval and Renaissance forms of natural theology into the empirical discipline we know today. Focusing on the overthrow of Church and State in revolutionary France, and on the crucial nineteenth century period when a newly emerging scientific community rendered science culturally accessible, Science and Spirituality shows how scientific disenchantment has provided some of our most flexible and powerful metaphors for God, such as the hidden puppet-master and the blind watchmaker, and illustrates how questions of moral and spiritual value continue to intervene in scientific endeavour.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000949559
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God. By the twenty-first century this comforting certainty has almost vanished. What caused such a cataclysmic change in attitudes to science and to the world? Science and Spirituality offers a new history of the interaction between Western science and faith, which explores their volatile connection, and challenges the myth of their being locked in inevitable conflict. Journeying from the French Revolution to the present day, and taking in such figures as Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Charles Darwin, Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelley and Stephen Hawking, David Knight shows how science evolved from medieval and Renaissance forms of natural theology into the empirical discipline we know today. Focusing on the overthrow of Church and State in revolutionary France, and on the crucial nineteenth century period when a newly emerging scientific community rendered science culturally accessible, Science and Spirituality shows how scientific disenchantment has provided some of our most flexible and powerful metaphors for God, such as the hidden puppet-master and the blind watchmaker, and illustrates how questions of moral and spiritual value continue to intervene in scientific endeavour.
Biblical Repertory
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Pages : 776
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Pages : 776
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The New Princeton Review
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Includes index.
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Includes index.
An Elementary Treatise on Heat in Relation to Steam and the Steam-engine
Author: George Shann (M.A.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Pages : 160
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Catalogue of the Library of Wabash College ...
Author: Wabash College. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable
Author: Sarah C Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317316800
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or ‘imponderable’.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317316800
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or ‘imponderable’.