Observing God Thomas Dick 1774 1857 Evangelicalism And Popular Science In Victorian Britain And Antebellum America
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Observing God Thomas Dick 1774 1857 Evangelicalism And Popular Science In Victorian Britain And Antebellum America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Observing God Thomas Dick 1774 1857 Evangelicalism And Popular Science In Victorian Britain And Antebellum America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Within the last 22 years, he has published about 10 volumes on literary, scientific, and theological subjects, calculated to promote the intellectual and moral improvement of society, particularly of the middle and lower ranks of the community. The general aim of these volumes has been to bring the more useful and interesting portions of science within the comprehension of general readers, and to render the discoveries of science, and the improvements of the useful arts subservient to the promotion of the interests of religion and Christian morality.
Observing God
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Author : William J. Astore
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Observing God written by William J. Astore and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
Scottish theologian, educator, astronomer and popularizer of science, Thomas Dick (1774-1857) promoted a Christianized form of science to inhibit secularization, to win converts to Christianity, and to persuade evangelicals that science was sacred. His devotional theology of nature made radical claims for cultural authority. This book presents the first detailed analysis of his life and works. After an extended biographical introduction, Dick's theology of nature is examined within the context of natural theology, and also his views on the plurality of worlds, the nebular hypothesis and geology. Other chapters deal with Dick's use of aesthetics to shape social behaviour for millennial purposes, and with the publishing history of his works, their availability and their reception. In the final part, the author explores Dick's influence in America. His pacifism won him Northern evangelical supporters, while his writings dominated the burgeoning field of popular science, powerfully shaping science's cultural meaning and its uses.
Science And Salvation
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Author : Aileen Fyfe
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-04-15
Science And Salvation written by Aileen Fyfe and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-15 with Religion categories.
Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques—low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives—to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well. This important volume is destined to become essential reading for historians of science, religion, and publishing alike.
Phrenology And The Origins Of Victorian Scientific Naturalism
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Author : John van Wyhe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Phrenology And The Origins Of Victorian Scientific Naturalism written by John van Wyhe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.
Through a reassessment of phrenology, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism sheds light on all kinds of works in Victorian Britain and America which have previously been unnoticed or were simply referred to with a vague 'naturalism of the times' explanation. It is often assumed that the scientific naturalism familiar in late nineteenth century writers such as T.H. Huxley and John Tyndall are the effects of a 'Darwinian revolution' unleashed in 1859 on an unsuspecting world following the publication of The Origin of Species. Yet it can be misleading to view Darwin's work in isolation, without locating it in the context of a well established and vigorous debate concerning scientific naturalism. Throughout the nineteenth century intellectuals and societies had been discussing the relationship between nature and man, and the scientific and religious implications thereof. At the forefront of these debates were the advocates of phrenology, who sought to apply their theories to a wide range of subjects, from medicine and the treatment of the insane, to education, theology and even economic theories. Showing how ideas about naturalism and the doctrine of natural laws were born in the early phrenology controversies in the 1820s, this book charts the spread of such views. It argues that one book in particular, The Constitution of Man in Relation to External Objects (1828) by George Combe, had an enormous influence on scientific thinking and the popularity of the 'naturalistic movement'. The Constitution was one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century, being published continuously from 1828 to 1899, and selling more than 350,000 copies throughout the world, many times more than Dawin's The Origin of Species. By restoring Combe and his work to centre stage it provides modern scholars with a more accurate picture of the Victorians' view of their place in Nature.
Victorian Sensation
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Author : James A. Secord
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2003-09-20
Victorian Sensation written by James A. Secord and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-20 with Religion categories.
Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of humanity. As gripping as a popular novel, Vestiges combined all the current scientific theories in fields ranging from astronomy and geology to psychology and economics. The book was banned, it was damned, it was hailed as the gospel for a new age. This is where our own public controversies about evolution began. In a pioneering cultural history, James A. Secord uses the story of Vestiges to create a panoramic portrait of life in the early industrial era from the perspective of its readers. We join apprentices in a factory town as they debate the consequences of an evolutionary ancestry. We listen as Prince Albert reads aloud to Queen Victoria from a book that preachers denounced as blasphemy vomited from the mouth of Satan. And we watch as Charles Darwin turns its pages in the flea-ridden British Museum library, fearful for the fate of his own unpublished theory of evolution. Using secret letters, Secord reveals how Vestiges was written and how the anonymity of its author was maintained for forty years. He also takes us behind the scenes to a bustling world of publishers, printers, and booksellers to show how the furor over the book reflected the emerging industrial economy of print. Beautifully written and based on painstaking research, Victorian Sensation offers a new approach to literary history, the history of reading, and the history of science. Profusely illustrated and full of fascinating stories, it is the most comprehensive account of the making and reception of a book (other than the Bible) ever attempted. Winner of the 2002 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society
Evangelicals And Science In Historical Perspective
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Author : David N. Livingstone
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1999
Evangelicals And Science In Historical Perspective written by David N. Livingstone and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Evangelicalism categories.
Comprising papers by such distinguished scholars as John Headley Brooke, James R. Moore, Ronald Numbers, and George Marsden, this collection shows that questions of science have been central to evangelical history in the United States, as well as in Britain and Canada.
British Reports Translations And Theses
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Author : British Library. Document Supply Centre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
British Reports Translations And Theses written by British Library. Document Supply Centre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Dissertations, Academic categories.
Government Reports Announcements Index
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Government Reports Announcements Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Science categories.
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750 1900
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Author : Michael J. Crowe
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-05-04
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750 1900 written by Michael J. Crowe and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-04 with Science categories.
Detailed, scholarly study examines the ideas that developed between 1750 and 1900 regarding the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, including those of Kant, Herschel, Voltaire, Lowell, many others. 16 illustrations.
La Follia Di Banvard
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Author : Paul Collins
language : it
Publisher: Adelphi Edizioni spa
Release Date : 2017-03-02T00:00:00+01:00
La Follia Di Banvard written by Paul Collins and has been published by Adelphi Edizioni spa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02T00:00:00+01:00 with Fiction categories.
Capita, nella vita di tutti, che qualcosa vada storto, magari proprio quando fortuna e gloria erano appena state assaporate, o sembravano a portata di mano. E, a volte, a determinare la differenza tra successo e fallimento è un capriccio di troppo. Se non avesse disseminato i suoi perfetti manoscritti «shakespeariani» – che i migliori esperti in circolazione prendevano rigorosamente per autentici – di firme frettolose, William Henry Ireland sarebbe passato alla storia come il più grande falsario mai esistito; se non avesse tentato un esperimento inutile, René Blondlot avrebbe scoperto, anziché i fantomatici raggi N (in realtà, un innocuo disturbo della visione periferica), i raggi X, e la sua ragguardevole reputazione sarebbe stata consacrata per sempre; e se si fosse accontentato di essere il paesaggista più ammirato del suo tempo (da Charles Dickens, su tutti gli altri) rinunciando a sfidare Barnum sul suo terreno, John Banvard non sarebbe, oggi, un pittore del tutto dimenticato. A tardivo risarcimento dei loro sogni infranti, i tredici personaggi ritratti in questa galleria di sconfitti hanno avuto la ventura di incontrare un biografo perfetto, Paul Collins – l’unico scrittore contemporaneo capace di trasformare un dagherrotipo svanito, la pubblicità di un rimedio taumaturgico o il brevetto di un’invenzione portentosa, ma assolutamente inutile, in altrettanti microromanzi ilari e sorprendenti.