William Paley

Natural Theology

Or Evidence of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature
Herausgegeben von Eddy, Matthew D.; Knight, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. This edition reprints the original text of 1802, and sets the book in the context of the theological, philosophical, and scientific debates of the nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 132mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9780199535750
• ISBN-10: 0199535752
• Artikelnr.: 23354205

Autorenporträt

Matthew D. Eddy is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and the University of Durham and has recently held fellowships at the Dibner Institute (MIT), Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the University of Notre Dame's Erasmus Institute. He has just finished editing (with David M. Knight) Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700-1900 (Ashgate,2005). David Knight has edited the British Journal for the History of Science and served as President of the British Society for the History of Science. In 2003 he received the American Chemical Society's Edelstein Award for History of Chemistry.