More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian (Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion) - Softcover

Brewster, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108004164 ISBN 13: 9781108004169

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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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Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) was a distinguished scientist and inventor, and a regular contributor to scientific and philosophical journals. More Worlds Than One (1854) responded to Whewell's Of the Plurality of Worlds, arguing that Whewell's 'extraordinary doctrine' that extra-terrestrial life was impossible was wrong on scientific grounds.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1108004164
• ISBN 13: 9781108004169
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272