The Unseen Universe, Or Physical Speculations on a Future State

Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait

Cosimo, Inc., 01‏/04‏/2007 - 288 من الصفحات

Originally published anonymously, The Unseen Universe is a bold attempt to bring scientific and religious readers together in harmony. Themselves both accomplished scientists, Steward and Tait hoped to calm those Christians who had come to see science as heretical and show scientists how they could reconcile the advances in their field with a belief in God and the immortality of the soul. In this quest, they ask readers to consider the principle of Continuity, in which all the mechanics in nature have a cause that is also found in nature. And in following this chain of continuity backward, they inevitably come upon a prime mover, for if the universe is not eternal, then it must have been started, and this is where science and religion can share the same ground. Readers of science and philosophy will be called to ponder the nature of the universe for themselves. Scottish physicist BALFOUR STEWART (1828-1887) studied and wrote about the nature of radiation, meteorology, and magnetism. Scottish physicist PETER GUTHRIE TAIT (1831-1901) is most famous for writing, with Lord Kelvin, the groundbreaking physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867).

المحتوى

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• Belief of the Ancient Hebrews: 8
• Belief of the Eastern Aryans: 18
• Spread of the Christian religion: 54
• Points of similarity between this school and Christians: 60
• Modern spiritualists: 67
• Essential requisites for continued existence: 78
• Three conceivable suppositions: 96
• Use and Abuse of the Term Force 97: 97
• Transformability of energy constitutes its use 104: 104
• Degradation of energy 114: 114
• CHAPTER IV: 129
• Relative quantity of matter associated with energy 137138: 137
• The Ethereal medium: 143
• Universal gravitation: 144
• Remarks on the speculations of this chapter 149150: 149
• Chemical development: 155
• CHAPTER III: 163
• Life development: 165
• Position of life in the present physical universe 177: 177
• THE PRESENT PHYSICAL UNIVERSE: 181
• Delicacy of construction derived from the suns rays 183: 183
• The same idea pervades the Old Testament 189: 189
• Explanation of this 195: 195
• Connection between seen and unseen 197198: 197
• Objections to the proposed theory of a future state replied: 203
• Miracles and the Resurrection of Christ: 214
• Meaning of conservation: 232
• Peculiar communication with the unseen in the case: 246
• Our argument may be very much detached from all con: 253
• Plato on the markings of the soul 259: 259
• The scientific conclusion is directly against the opponents: 265
• Criticism invited from leaders of scientific thought or: 272

معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: The Unseen Universe, Or Physical Speculations on a Future State; Cosimo Classics Philosophy; Cosimo classics
• المؤلفون: Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait
• الإصدار: معاد طباعته
• الناشر: Cosimo, Inc., 2007
• رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب): 1602061300, 9781602061309
• عدد الصفحات: 288 من الصفحات