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More Worlds Than One
David Brewster
其他書名
The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2009-07-20
主題
Political Science / History & Theory
History / Social History
ISBN
1108004164
9781108004169
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SnMVQAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) was a distinguished scientist and inventor who frequently turned the results of his research to practical ends; his work on the diffraction of light, for example, led to his developing improved reflectors for lighthouses and inventing two popular Victorian toys, the stereoscope and the kaleidoscope. He was also active as the editor of the Edinburgh Magazine and the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1808-1830) and contributed to the seventh and eighth editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as writing many articles for a variety of philosophical and scientific journals. He was deeply religious, and in More Worlds Than One (1854) he set out to counter the arguments against extra-terrestrial life of William Whewell's recently published Of the Plurality of Worlds (also reissued in this series), urging that Whewell's 'extraordinary doctrine' was wrong on scientific grounds.