Henry More
And the Scientific Revolution
Henry More (1614 87) was the greatest English metaphysical theologian and the most perplexing; he was also perhaps the most distinguished member of the group of divines known as the Cambridge Platonists. An admirer of Galileo, Descartes, and Boyle, he rejected their detailed applications of mechanical philosophy to the explanation of natural phenomena. He was an experimenter, yet also a cabbalist and one of the few writers whom Newton acknowledged as having influenced his ideas. This thorough and accessible biography is the first book-length treatment of this remarkable character. More's important contributions to science are illuminated, par…
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Weitere Autoren: A. Rupert, Hall / Gregory Kohlstedt, Sally (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-89264-3
- EAN: 9780521892643
- Produktnummer: 9779607
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 494 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 494
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