Physico-theology : religion and science in Europe, 1650-1750

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Physico-theology : religion and science in Europe, 1650-1750

edited by Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz

(Medicine, science, and religion in historical context)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020

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Bibliography: p. [235]-266

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This first book-length study of physico-theology questions the widespread notion of a steadily advancing early modern separation of religion and science. Beginning around 1650, the emergence of a number of new scientific concepts, methods, and instruments challenged existing syntheses of science and religion. Physico-theology, which embraced the values of personal, empirical observation, was an international movement of the early Enlightenment that focused on the new science to make arguments about divine creation and providence. By reconciling the new science with Christianity across many denominations, physico-theology played a crucial role in diffusing new scientific ideas, assumptions, and interest in the study of nature to a broad public. In this book, sixteen leading scholars contribute a rich array of essays on the terms and scope of the movement, its scientific and religious arguments, and its aesthetic sensibilities. Contributors: Ann Blair, Simona Boscani Leoni, John Hedley Brooke, Nicolas Brucker, Katherine Calloway, Kathleen Crowther, Brendan Dooley, Peter Harrison, Barbara Hunfeld, Eric Jorink, Scott Mandelbrote, Brian W. Ogilvie, Martine Pécharman, Jonathan Sheehan, Anne-Charlott Trepp, Rienk Vermij, Kaspar von Greyerz

Table of Contents

Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Ann Blair and Kaspar von Greyerz Part I. Terms and Purview of Physico-theology Chapter 1. Was Physico-theology Bad Theology and Bad Science? John Hedley Brooke Chapter 2. What's in a Name? "Physico-theology" in Seventeenth-Century England Peter Harrison Chapter 3. The Form of a Flower Jonathan Sheehan Part II. National Traditions Chapter 4. What Was Physico-theology For? Scott Mandelbrote Chapter 5. Physico-theology in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic: The Case of Willem Goeree (1635–1711) Eric Jorink Chapter 6. Back to the Roots? J. A. Fabricius's "Register of Ancient and Modern Writers" of 1728 Kaspar von Greyerz Part III. Styles of Religiosity Chapter 7. Miracles, Secrets, and Wonders: Jakob Horst and Christian Natural Philosophy in German Protestantism before 1650 Kathleen Crowther Chapter 8. "Rather Theological than Philosophical": John Ray's Seminal Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation Katherine Calloway Chapter 9. Matters of Belief and Belief That Matters: German Physico-theology, Protestantism, and the Materialized Word of God in Nature Anne-Charlott Trepp Chapter 10. Pascal's Rejection of Natural Theology: The Case of the Port-Royal Edition of the Pensées Martine Pécharman Part IV. Engagement with the New Science  Chapter 11. Physico-theology or Biblical Physics? The Biblical Focus of the Early Physico-theologians Rienk Vermij Chapter 12. Maxima in minimis animalibus: Insects in Natural Theology and Physico-theology Brian W. Ogilvie Chapter 13. What Abbé Pluche Owed to Early Modern Physico-theologians Nicolas Brucker Chapter 14. Antonio Vallisneri between Faith and Flood Brendan Dooley Part V. Aesthetic Sensibilities  Chapter 15. A Language for the Eye: Evidence within the Text and Evidence as Text in German Physico-theological Literature Barbara Hunfeld Chapter 16. A Hybrid Physico-theology: The Case of the Swiss Confederation Simona Boscani Leoni Bibliography Index

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