Astronomical principles of religion, natural and reveal'd : In nine parts: I. Lemmata; or the known Laws of Matter and Motion. II. A particular Account of the System of the Universe. III. The Truth of that System briesly Demonstrated. IV. Certain Observations drawn from that System. V. Probable Conjectures of the Nature and Uses of the several Celestial Bodies contain'd in the same System. VI. Important Principles of Natural Religion Demonstrated from the foregoing Observations. Vii. Important Principles of Divine Revelation Confirm'd from the foregoing Conjectures. Viii. Such Inferences shewn to be the common Voice of Nature and Reason, from the Testimonies of the most considerable Persons in all Ages. IX. A Recapitulation of the Whole: With a Large and Serious Address to all, especially to the Scepticks and Unbelievers of our Age. Together with a preface, of the temper of mind necessary for the discovery of divine truth; and of the Degree of Evidence that ought to be expected in Divine Matters. By William Whiston, M. A. Sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whiston, William, 1667-1752.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible and science.

Religion and science.

Cosmology--Early works to 1800.

Cosmology.

Whiston, William, 1667-1752--Bibliography.

Whiston, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],xxxii,304,[4]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Astronomical principles of religion, natural and reveal'd.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Senex in Fleet-Street, W. and J. Innys near St. Paul's, J. Osborne, and T. Longman in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXV. [1725]

Notes:

The two final leaves contain 'A compleat chronological catalogue of Mr. Whiston's writings'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T115647.

OCLC:

642295962