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More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian

By David Brewster

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
1108004164, 9781108004169
Google Books ID
SnMVQAAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7095136 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
Edition
1
Pages
272\272
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) was a distinguished scientist and inventor who frequently turned the results of his research to practical ends; his work on the diffraction of light, for example, led to his developing improved reflectors for lighthouses and inventing two popular Victorian toys, the stereoscope and the kaleidoscope. He was also active as the editor of the Edinburgh Magazine and the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1808-1830) and contributed to the seventh and eighth editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as writing many articles for a variety of philosophical and scientific journals. He was deeply religious, and in More Worlds Than One (1854) he set out to counter the arguments against extra-terrestrial life of William Whewell's recently published Of the Plurality of Worlds (also reissued in this series), urging that Whewell's 'extraordinary doctrine' was wrong on scientific grounds.

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