Download or read book The cause of the deluge demonstrated being an appendix to the second edition of the New theory of the earth written by William Whiston and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cause of the Deluge Demonstrated Being an Appendix to the Second Edition of the New Theory of the Earth The Second Edition with Additions written by William Whiston and published by . This book was released on 1714 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Comets Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology written by Sara Schechner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
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Download or read book A Catalogue of Books Printed at Or Relating to the University Town and Country of Cambridge from 1521 to 1893 with Bibliographical and Biographical Notes written by Bowes and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A catalogue of books printed at or relating to the university town county of Cambridge from 1521 to 1893 written by Robert Bowes and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Whiston written by James E. Force and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Sir Isaac Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
Download or read book Measuring Eternity written by Martin Gorst and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-11-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the religious figures, philosophers, astronomers, geologists, physicists, and mathematicians who, for more than four hundred years, have pursued the answer to a fundamental question at the intersection of science and religion: When did the universe begin? The moment of the universe's conception is one of science's Holy Grails, investigated by some of the most brilliant and inquisitive minds across the ages. Few were more committed than Bishop James Ussher, who lost his sight during the fifty years it took him to compose his Annals of all known history, now famous only for one date: 4004 b.c. Ussher's date for the creation of the world was spectacularly inaccurate, but that didn't stop it from being so widely accepted that it was printed in early twentieth-century Bibles. As writer and documentary filmmaker Martin Gorst vividly illustrates in this captivating, character-driven narrative, theology let Ussher down just as it had thwarted Theophilus of Antioch and many before him. Geology was next to fail the test of time. In the eighteenth century, naturalist Comte de Buffon, working out the rate at which the earth was supposed to have cooled, came up with an age of 74,832 years, even though he suspected this was far too low. Biology then had a go in the hands of fossil hunter Johann Scheuchzer, who alleged to have found a specimen of a man drowned at the time of Noah's flood. Regrettably it was only the imprint of a large salamander. And so science inched forward via Darwinism, thermodynamics, radioactivity, and, most recently, the astronomers at the controls of the Hubble space telescope, who put the beginning of time at 13.4 billion years ago (give or take a billion). Taking the reader into the laboratories and salons of scholars and scientists, visionaries and eccentrics, Measuring Eternity is an engagingly written account of an epic, often quixotic quest, of how individuals who dedicated their lives to solving an enduring mystery advanced our knowledge of the universe.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books Printed at Or Relating to the University Index written by Robert Bowes and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book In the Beginning written by Immanuel Velikovsky and published by Paradigma Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sequel (or better: a prequel) to Immanuel Velikovsky's main work, the best-selling Worlds in Collision, in which he gave a detailed reconstruction of two global natural catastrophes based on information handed down by our ancestors. He mentioned there that, as part of his intensive research, he found numerous indications of even more catastrophes that took place earlier in the history of mankind. In the present book, the material collected by Velikovksy about this topic is presented to the public for the first time. His findings show just how turbulent the history of Earth and our planetary system was during the time of mankind and how little we actually know of all that today.
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