MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 121023s2010 enka b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9781906165086 (hbk.)
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050 00 $aBL240.3$b.P66 2010
082 04 $a261.5/5/09/032$223
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. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aPast in the present
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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [187]-227) and index.
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.
610 20 $aRoyal Society (Great Britain)$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aReligion and science$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aReligion and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y17th century.
830 0 $aPast in the present (Oxford, England)