Physico-theology : religion and science in Europe, 1650-1750

Physico-theology : religion and science in Europe, 1650-1750 /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Blair, Ann, 1961- (Editor), Greyerz, Kaspar von (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Series:Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
Subjects:
Religion and science > Europe > History > 17th century.
Religion and science > Europe > History > 18th century.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I TERMS AND PURVIEW OF PHYSICO-THEOLOGY
  • 1. Was Physico-theology Bad Theology and Bad Science? / John Hedley Brooke
  • 2. What's in a Name? "Physico-theology" in Seventeenth-Century England / Peter Harrison
  • 3. Form of a Flower / Jonathan Sheehan
  • pt. II NATIONAL TRADITIONS
  • 4. What Was Physico-theology For? / Scott Mandelbrote
  • 5. Physico-theology in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic: The Case of Willem Goeree (1635--1711) / Eric Jorink
  • 6. Back to the Roots? J. A. Fabricius's "Register of Ancient and Modern Writers" of 1728 / Kaspar Von Greyerz
  • pt. III STYLES OF RELIGIOSITY
  • 7. Miracles, Secrets, and Wonders: Jakob Horst and Christian Natural Philosophy in German Protestantism before 1650 / Kathleen Crowther
  • 8. "Rather Theological than Philosophical": John Ray's Seminal Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation / Katherine Calloway
  • 9. Matters of Belief and Belief That Matters: German Physico-theology, Protestantism, and the Materialized Word of God in Nature / Anne-Charlott Trepp
  • 10. Pascal's Rejection of Natural Theology: The Case of the Port-Royal Edition of the Pensees / Martine Pecharman
  • pt. IV ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NEW SCIENCE
  • 11. Physico-theology or Biblical Physics? The Biblical Focus of the Early Physico-theologians / Rienk Vermij
  • 12. Maxima in minimis animalibus: Insects in Natural Theology and Physico-theology / Brian W. Ogilvie
  • 13. What Abbe Pluche Owed to Early Modern Physico-theologians / Nicolas Brucker
  • 14. Antonio Vallisneri between Faith and Flood / Brendan Dooley
  • pt. V AESTHETIC SENSIBILITIES
  • 15. Language for the Eye: Evidence within the Text and Evidence as Text in German Physico-theological Literature / Barbara Hunfeld
  • 16. Hybrid Physico-theology: The Case of the Swiss Confederation / Simona Boscani Leoni.

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