The Age of the World: Moses to DarwinAn extension of [the author's] dissertation, Revolution in the concept of historical time: a study in the relationship between Biblical chronology and the rise of modern science. Johns Hopkins University, 1957. |
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... historical criticism . The work of Julius Caesar Scaliger ( 1484-1558 ) was typical of the trend , and his son Joseph Justus Scaliger ( 1540-1609 ) brought it to high technical achievement . The latter's De emendatione temporum ( 1583 ) ...
... historical criticism . The work of Julius Caesar Scaliger ( 1484-1558 ) was typical of the trend , and his son Joseph Justus Scaliger ( 1540-1609 ) brought it to high technical achievement . The latter's De emendatione temporum ( 1583 ) ...
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... Higher Criticism , and even after it had been fully de- veloped in Germany the English resisted its introduction into their theology . On the Continent , de Wette subjected the sacred writings to the same criticism of historical ...
... Higher Criticism , and even after it had been fully de- veloped in Germany the English resisted its introduction into their theology . On the Continent , de Wette subjected the sacred writings to the same criticism of historical ...
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... higher criticism , ” 71 , 229–32 , 236 , 240 , 280. See also Genesis Big Bone Lick , 251 Bischof , K. G. , 288 Blumenbach , J. F. , 174 , 278 Bochart , Samuel , 100 Bolingbroke , Lord , 100 Bopp , Frank , 277 Bory de St. Vincent , 278 ...
... higher criticism , ” 71 , 229–32 , 236 , 240 , 280. See also Genesis Big Bone Lick , 251 Bischof , K. G. , 288 Blumenbach , J. F. , 174 , 278 Bochart , Samuel , 100 Bolingbroke , Lord , 100 Bopp , Frank , 277 Bory de St. Vincent , 278 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Historicism and the Scientific Revolution | 36 |
Time and World Process in 18thCentury Outlook | 102 |
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