Turning points in natural theology from Bacon to Darwin : the way of the argument from design /

Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin discusses important changes that took place in the argument from design, the staple rhetorical formation of natural theology, during the period from Francis Bacon (1561-1626) to Charles Darwin (1809-82). After a discussion of the circumstances...

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Main Author:	Peterfreund, Stuart
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
Subjects:	Teleology. Natural theology.