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  • John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science

    de Jack Morrell ...
    John Phillips was one of the most remarkable and important scientists of the Victorian period. Orphaned at the age of seven and brought up by his uncle, he rose to hold a number of highly prestigious posts within the British academic and scientific community, despite lacking a university education. By the time of his death in 1874 he was widely regarded as one of the pioneers and champions of the ... Leer más

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  • Routledge Revivals: John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science (2005)

    The Fiction of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross

    de Jack Morrell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 2005, this book represents the first full length biography of John Phillips, one of the most remarkable and important scientists of the Victorian period. Adopting a broad chronological approach, this book not only traces the development of Phillips’ career but clarifies and highlights his role within Victorian culture, shedding light on many wider themes. It explores how ... Leer más

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  • Metropolis and Province

    Science in British Culture, 1780 - 1850

    Edición de Ian Inkster, Jack Morrell ...
    This collection of case studies, focusing on British scientific culture during the first industrial revolution, explores the social basis of science in the period and asks why such an extraordinarily rich variety of cultural-scientific experience should have flourished at the time.The book analyses science and scientific culture in their local contexts, both metropolitan and provincial, examining ... Leer más

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    John H. Walton on the Ancient Context and Modern Significance of Genesis OneIn The Lost World of Genesis One, John H. Walton proposes a fresh reading of Genesis that remains faithful to the original context and that preserves and enhances the theological vitality of the text. Walton addresses key areas of controversy among Christians, including the relationship between Genesis and modern science, ... Leer más

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    This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Named after a Greek sea nymph, there is a sense of mystery about such a vast, ancient ocean, of which all that remains now are a few little pools, like the Caspian Sea. There were other great oceans in the history of the Earth - Iapetus, Panthalassa - but Tethys was the last of them, vanishing a mere moment ... Leer más

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  • In Suspect Terrain

    de John McPhee ...
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  • Medieval London

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  • Flood By Design

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    de Michael Oard ...
    There are features on the earth's surface that science cannot explain with theories of changes over millions or even billions of years by the geographic processes that we see occurring commonly today. However, when you explore the evidence from a biblical worldview, the geological features marking the planet's surface make sense given the worldview catastrophic flood described in the book of ... Leer más

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  • Geology off the Beaten Track

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