Henry More: And the Scientific Revolution

by A. Rupert Hall and Rupert Hall

Book Overview

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 cabalist, and one of the few writers whom Newton acknowledged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521892643
• ISBN13: 9780521892643
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"