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100 1 $aPoole, William,$d1977-
245 14 $aThe world makers :$bscientists of the restoration and the search for the origins of the earth /$cWilliam Poole.
260 $aOxford :$bPeter Lang,$c2010.
300 $axvii, 234 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references ( p. 202-227) and index.
505 0 $aThe physics of creation. The Biblical inheritance ; The Aristotelian inheritance ; The Paracelsian inheritance ; The Cartesian and Gassendist inheritances -- The Preadamite hypothesis -- Chronology -- Flood and ark -- The world makers : Burnet, Woodward, Whiston -- Babel and the rise of nations -- Archaeology and the silent past -- Vicissitude and geomorphology -- Fossils and extinction -- Meteorology, cartography, and globes -- Magnetism and its survival -- Conflagration and millennium.
520 $aExamines how the emerging discipline of experimental philosophy reacted to the Biblical Genesis to interpret the physical origin, present status, and final destination of Earth. Looks at the role of the Royal Society of London and men such as Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Edmond Halley, and Thomas Burnet in the developing separation of religion and science.
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651 0 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y17th century.
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