Format:
1 online resource (316 pages)
ISBN:
9783031052804
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Crisis and Cosmology: The Subtle Interactions of Mind, Body and Belief -- Experience, Emotions and Weltmodelle -- Victorian Experiences of Illness and Death -- Psychotropic Drugs in the Nineteenth Century -- Victorian Religion -- Subjects and Sources -- Structure of This Book -- Astronomic Emotions -- Part II: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate -- Chapter 2: Planets and Pluralism: How Many Revelations Are Required to Redeem the Entire Universe? -- The Origins of Pluralism -- Thomas Paine and the Age of Reason -- Supporters and Opponents of Paine's Thesis -- William Paley's Natural Theology -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Interstellar Imperialism -- Chapter 3: "In Yonder Hundred Million Spheres": Thomas Chalmers and His Conversion to Pluralism -- Chalmers' Conversion Experience -- The Influence of Blaise Pascal -- Chalmers and the Age of the Earth -- Chalmers Addresses the 'Astronomical Objection' -- Chalmers' Theology and Political Economics -- Extraterrestrial Evangelism -- Chapter 4: "What Is Man if Thou Art Mindful of Him?": William Whewell and the Unique Revelation -- William Whewell's Declining Support for Pluralism -- Whewell's Response to Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation -- Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay -- Cordelia Whewell's Terminal Illness -- The Essay: Whewell's Response to His Wife's Illness and a Rebuttal of Chalmers -- Whewell and Politics -- Cosmology as Consolation -- Chapter 5: Richard Proctor and Private Judgement -- Proctor's Conversion to Catholicism -- Proctor and Pluralism -- John Tyndall and the Belfast Address -- Proctor's Response to Catholic Critics -- Heterodox Theological Views of Proctor and His Colleagues -- Universal Evolution -- Untitled -- Part III: The Nebular Hypothesis.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031052798
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031052798
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Carlton, Howard Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2022 ISBN 9783031052798
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031052811
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031052828
Language:
English
Keywords:
Naturwissenschaften
;
Theologie
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Kosmologie
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
