Cosmogonies of Our Fathers. some Theories of the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries / / Katharine Brownell Collier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Collier, Katharine Brownell,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1934]; ©1934
• Year of Publication: 1934
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 402
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (500 p.)

Presents philosophical, scientific, and theological theories of the origin of the universe from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes the theories of Descartes, Kircher, Burnet, Le Clerc, and others.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Part I. General Survey -- 1. The Conflict of Systems -- 2. Fludd, an Early Conciliator of Science and Genesis -- 3. Descartes, the Rival of Aristotle -- 4. The Pedagogue’s Approach to the Problem of Moses’s Scientific Accuracy -- 5. Kircher, the Catholic Scientist -- 6. Two Theologians of the Seventeenth Century -- 7. Burnet, the Stimulator of Controversy -- 8. The Zealous Debaters -- 9. Ray, the Biologist -- 10. Leibnitz, the Philosopher -- 11. Le Clerc, an Early Modernist -- 12. Whiston, the Mathematician -- 13. Woodward, the Collector -- 14. Cosmological References in Belles-Lettres -- 15. Grew, the Rationalizer, and Moncharville, the Fantast -- 16. Dickinson, the Atomist -- 17. Witty, the Anticartesian, and Derham, the Astronomer -- 18. Three Decades of Harmonizing Effort -- 19. Continental Attempts to Reconcile Moses with Science -- 20. Histories of the Eighteenth Century -- 21. Buffon, the Zoologist -- 22. French Theories of the Mid-century -- 23. The Deluge, and the Earth it Submerged -- 24. An Enlarging Universe and Genesis -- 25. Pike and the Climax of the Harmonizing Theories -- 26. De Luc, the Modern Scientist -- 27. The End of an Era -- Part II. Topical Review -- 1. The Heavens -- 2. Celestial Influences -- 3. Primeval Light -- 4. The Classification of Matter -- 5. Misplaced Elements -- 6. Earthquakes and Eruptions -- 7. Mountains, Metals and Minerals -- 8. Spontaneous Generation, Permanence of Species and Fossils -- 9. The First Men -- Bibliography -- Index