Henry More : and the Scientific Revolution

Name: Henry More
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521892643
Price: 11350 KES
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ISBN: 9780521892643

2 Revised edition

by A. Rupert Hall

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Science Biographies

ISBN-10 0521892643

ISBN-13 9780521892643

Edition 2 Revised edition

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 30th, 2002

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 470 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Biography: historical, political & military Biography: historical, political and military Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

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Henry More, the greatest English metaphysical theologian, was one of the few acknowledged by Newton as influencing his ideas. This biography contains fascinating insights into his physics, spiritual philosophy, and preoccupation with witchcraft. It is an exceptional account of the Scientific Revolution.

Henry More (1614–87) was the greatest English metaphysical theologian and the most perplexing; he was also perhaps the most distinguished member of the group of divines known as the Cambridge Platonists. An admirer of Galileo, Descartes, and Boyle, he rejected their detailed applications of mechanical philosophy to the explanation of natural phenomena. He was an experimenter, yet also a cabbalist and one of the few writers whom Newton acknowledged as having influenced his ideas. This thorough and accessible biography is the first book-length treatment of this remarkable character. More's important contributions to science are illuminated, particularly his work on space and time which influenced Newton, and the book gives fascinating insights into his spiritual philosophy and his preoccupation with witchcraft. The depth of Professor Hall's scholarship makes the book an exceptional account of the turbulent world of the Scientific Revolution.

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