Henry More: and the Scientific Revolution / Edition 2

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Henry More was the greatest and most perplexing English metaphysical theologian and perhaps the most distinguished member of the Cambridge Platonists. This work illuminates his important contributions to science, particularly his work on space and time, and provides fascinating insights into his spiritual philosophy.
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
An early scientific experimenter who was also a cabalist, Cambridge metaphysician-poet More (1614-87) continues to fascinate students of philosophy, science and religion. Although he was among the first to admire Galileo and influenced Newton, More later rejected their mechanistic explanations of living things. A Christian apologist, he regarded the universe as populated with angels and spirits, evil or benevolent. His attention to alleged cases of witchcraft, ghosts and demonism made him an anachronism in an age eagerly embracing the new science. Yet today, as this academic study demonstrates, he is regarded as a pivotal figure at the crossroads of the split into ``two cultures.'' British science historian Hall limns a peculiar man: More had a strange conviction that his body exuded a natural scent of flowers, and he wove an odd synthesis of the ``triple teaching'' of Moses, Plato and Descartes into a union of pagan and Christian traditions. (Nov.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521562232
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 4/28/1996
  • Series: Cambridge Science Biographies Series
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 8.98 (h) x 0.87 (d)

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
Preface
1 Introduction 3
2 Platonism 11
3 Platonism and the Scientific Revolution 40
4 The Cambridge Platonists 58
5 Henry More, Man of Paradox 82
6 Henry More's Philosophy 107
7 The Spirit World 128
8 More and Descartes 146
9 More and the Royal Society 168
10 More and Newton: Space and Time 202
11 More and Newton: Force 224
12 Conclusion 242
Appendix I: The Chief Philosophical Writings of Henry More 273
Appendix II: More and Galileo, 1647 275
Appendix III: More's Books and the Fellows of the Royal Society 277
Notes 279
Bibliography 289
Index 297
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