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    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    June 2015
    November 2014
    ISBN:
    9781139924177
    9781108078191
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924177
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    Dimensions:
    (244 x 170 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.66kg, 390 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Science, Philosophy of Religion, History of Ideas, Philosophy of Science, Politics and International Relations, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion
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    Subjects:
    History of Science, Philosophy of Religion, History of Ideas, Philosophy of Science, Politics and International Relations, General Science
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion
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    Originally published in Dutch in 1715, this two-volume work by the philosopher and theologian Bernard Nieuwentyt (1654–1718) is reissued here in the 1724 third edition of the English translation by John Chamberlayne (1668/9–1723). The book seeks to persuade both Christians and atheists that scientific examination of the natural world is compatible with religious belief. According to Chamberlayne, Nieuwentyt published this illustrated work to 'magnify the Wisdom and Goodness of God' while challenging those who did not see proof of the divine in nature. The work is known to have influenced the natural theology of the English philosopher William Paley (1743–1805), whose famous analogy of the watchmaker is believed to have been taken directly from Nieuwentyt. Arguing against rationalist philosophers such as Spinoza, Volume 2 continues Nieuwentyt's series of 'contemplations', focusing on details about the cosmos and the laws of nature.

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