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Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen in the Years 1896-1898, vol. 1
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Title: Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen in the Years 1896-1898, vol. 1
Author: Sc.D. James Ward
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, London
Published: 1899
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition
Number of Pages: 302
Catalogs: Philosophy, Science, Essays
Description: Ex-library. Volume I only. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Contains embossed stamp of American Congregational Library, Boston, on title page, withdrawn stamp on verso pastedown, card pocket on rear pastedown, and catalog number pasted to spine. Pages are deckled and gilded at the top. Interior pages in very good condition with just a few light pencil markings. This volume of collected lectures criticizes naturalism and agnosticism as a basis for understanding the world, opting for an integration of idealism within modern sciences at the turn of the 20th century. The lectures in volume I explore the ideas of Newton, Thomas Huxley, James Clerk Maxwell, Herbert Spencer, Darwin, and more. The scientific ideas discussed in these lectures include mass and force; space, time, and motion; molecular mechanics and atoms, the conservation of energy, biological evolution, and more. James Ward (1843-1925) was a professor of mental philosophy and logic at the University of Cambridge. Hardcover, good condition, 302 pages, octavo.
Author: Sc.D. James Ward
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, London
Published: 1899
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition
Number of Pages: 302
Catalogs: Philosophy, Science, Essays
Description: Ex-library. Volume I only. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Contains embossed stamp of American Congregational Library, Boston, on title page, withdrawn stamp on verso pastedown, card pocket on rear pastedown, and catalog number pasted to spine. Pages are deckled and gilded at the top. Interior pages in very good condition with just a few light pencil markings. This volume of collected lectures criticizes naturalism and agnosticism as a basis for understanding the world, opting for an integration of idealism within modern sciences at the turn of the 20th century. The lectures in volume I explore the ideas of Newton, Thomas Huxley, James Clerk Maxwell, Herbert Spencer, Darwin, and more. The scientific ideas discussed in these lectures include mass and force; space, time, and motion; molecular mechanics and atoms, the conservation of energy, biological evolution, and more. James Ward (1843-1925) was a professor of mental philosophy and logic at the University of Cambridge. Hardcover, good condition, 302 pages, octavo.
