| Cotton Mather - 2000 - 638 páginas
...Seventeenth Century," Journal of the History of Ideas, 3 (Jan.Apr. 1942), 51-73, 190-219. Robert Boyle, The Christian Virtuoso: Shewing, that by Being Addicted...Assisted, Than Indisposed, to Be a Good Christian ([London], 1690), went far in equating the word virtuoso with the word scientist (although the latter... | |
| R. Crocker - 2001 - 264 páginas
...Theology compared with Natural Philosophy, in Works, vol. 4, p.2. 25 The Christian Virtuoso, showing, that by being addicted to Experimental Philosophy,...rather assisted than indisposed to be a good Christian, Works, vol.5, p.509. 26 Excellency of Theology, Works, vol. 4, p. 1-3. 27 Thomas Sprat, The History... | |
| S. J. Barnett - 2003 - 260 páginas
...science were, in fact, seen as complementary to each other, as evident in the work of Boyle and his Christian Virtuoso: Shewing that by being Addicted...rather Assisted than Indisposed to Be a Good Christian (1690). Further, it may even be said that there is more evidence of attitudes to science being influenced... | |
| David C. Lindberg, Katharine Park, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - 2003 - 833 páginas
...of Things, that the Author of Nature Pre-ordain'd those ends and uses."14 More generally, Boyle held that "by being addicted to Experimental Philosophy,...Assisted than Indisposed, to be a Good Christian," as the subtitle to his Christian Virtuoso (1690-1) reads.147 Newton, too, embraced final causes. Writing... | |
| Ilse Vickers - 2006 - 224 páginas
...wisdom of God in his creation. Echoing Bacon, the Christian virtuosi later in the century asserted that 'by being addicted to Experimental Philosophy,...assisted than Indisposed, to be a good Christian' (Boyle 1774, V: 37). Bacon's reform programme leads directly to the kind of natural theology that we... | |
| Michael Cyril William Hunter - 2007 - 732 páginas
...on Several Occasions (1 661; 2nd edn, 1669) The Christian Virtuoso: Shewing, That by Being vol. 1 1 Addicted to Experimental Philosophy, a Man is Rather...Assisted, than Indisposed, to be a Good Christian (1690-1) Appendix to The Christian Virtuoso, ed. vol. 12 Henry Miles, first published in Birch's edition... | |
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