Animal and Vegetable Physiology considered with reference to natural theology

FINE BINDING - THE PHYSIOLOGIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE BRIDGEWATER TREATISES, UNDERWRITTEN TO REVEAL THE POWER OF GOD IN THE NATURAL WORLD. Two volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, full dark leather prize binding with gilt seal of Trinity College of Dublin to cover, spine with raised bands, gilt titles to spine on red leather, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, elaborate prize bookplates to front paste-downs, over 200 wood engravings in each volume. Cover edges rubbed, otherwise very good in custom archival mylar covers. PETER MARK ROGET FRS (1779 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words. Roget was much concerned with medical education but the School of Medicine at the University of Manchester was only established in 1874. He was also one of the founders of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, which later became the Royal Society of Medicine, and he was a secretary of the Royal Society. In 1815, he invented the log-log slide rule, allowing a person to perform exponential and root calculations simply. This was especially helpful for calculations involving fractional powers and roots. In 1834 he became the first Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution. He was examiner in physiology in the University of London. He wrote numerous papers on physiology and health, among them the fifth Bridgewater Treatise, Animal and Vegetable Physiology considered with reference to Natural Theology (1834). Debates over the applicability of teleology to scientific questions continued during the nineteenth century, as Paley's argument about design conflicted with radical new theories on the transmutation of species. In order to support the scientific ideas of the time, which explored the natural world within Paley's framework of a divine designer, Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater, a gentleman naturalist, commissioned eight Bridgewater Treatises upon his deathbed to explore the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation. They were published first during the years 1833 to 1840.

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Publisher: William Pickering

Year: 1834

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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