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Effect of Geological Discoveries in English Society and Literature Between
Klaver, J. M. I.
ISBN: 9789004108820
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Brill Academic Publishers
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This book deals with reactions to geological discoveries in early nineteenth-century England. How did theologians cope with new scientific evidence of the antiquity of the world which was contrary to accepted biblical chronology? And what repercussions did this picture have on philosophers poets and novelists? The first part of the book concentrates on Charles Lyell's religious and scientific views. This is followed by a study of William Buckland…
This is a study which deals with reactions to geological discoveries in early 19th-century England. How did theologians cope with new scientific evidence of the antiquity of the world which was contrary to accepted biblical chronology? What repercussions did this picture have on philosophers, poets and novelists? The book first concentrates on Charles Lyell's religious and scientific views, followed by a study of William Buckland, Adam Sedgewick and William Whewell, three clergymen who were also geologists. The last section explores the literary reception of the revolutionary discoveries of Lyell and his contemporaries.
| ISBN | 9004108823 | | Pages | 215 | | ISBN13 | 9789004108820
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers | | Weight (grammes) | 568 | | Imprint | BRILL ACADEMIC PUB | | Published in | Leiden | | Format | Hardback | | Series editor | Vanderjagt, A.J. | | Publication date | 01 Sep 1997 | | Series ISSN | 80 | | Non-book description | xvi, 215 p. : | | Series title | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History | | Library of Congress | 97029917 | | Height (mm) | 241 | | DEWEY | 261.55 | | Width (mm) | 165 |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Abbreviations | | | | | | Introduction | | | | Ch. 1 | | The Geological Setting: The Dangerous and Visionary Pursuit | | 1 | | Pt. 1 | | Charles Lyell | | | | Ch. 2 | | The Period to 1830: From Former Worlds to Uniformitarianism | | 15 | | Ch. 3 | | "If We Don't Irritate, We Shall Carry All with Us": The First Volume of Principles of Geology | | 27 | | Ch. 4 | | Principles of Geology 1832-33: Working Hard at Natural Theology | | 51 | | Ch. 5 | | Modified Mud or Modified Monkey: Uniformity, Progression and Transmutation | | 61 | | Ch. 6 | | Progress, Education, and Unitarianism | | 75 | | Pt. 2 | | The Clergy | | | | Ch. 7 | | Bridge-over-the-Water by William Buckland | | 87 | | Ch. 8 | | How Much Good Might He Do? by Adam Sedgwick | | 102 | | Ch. 9 | | The Sober Facts and the Rogue's Game by Adam Sedgwick | | 118 | | Ch. 10 | | Lyell's Labours and Ideas by William Whewell | | 132 | | Pt. 3 | | The Men of Letters | | | | Ch. 11 | | Swinging Mid-Air among the Precipices of Life | | 157 | | Ch. 12 | | The Whole Creation Groaneth and Travaileth Together | | 168 | | Ch. 13 | | Deus Quidam Deceptor | | 177 | | Ch. 14 | | Towards Abatement of the Fever | | 188 | | | | Conclusion | | 197 | | | | Bibliography | | 201 | | | | Index | | 211 |
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