The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God : A Theme in Geoteleology / Yi-Fu Tuan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuan, Yi-Fu, Author.

Series:

Research publications (University of Toronto. Department of Geography) ; 1.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hydrology.

God--Wisdom.

God.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is the first volume of a new series of research publications in geography which is published for the Department of Geography, University of Toronto. The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God traces the development of the idea of the hydrologic cycle in the context of natural theology. The notion that "all creation exhibits the wisdom of the Creator" was once a widely held belief in the Western world. However, unlike stars and biological organisms, the physical features of the earth, with their evident lack of pattern, were difficult to reconcile with God's wisdom until scholars and scientists, at the end of the seventeenth century, found a satisfactory solution in the concept of the hydrologic cycle. The concept served to explain the earth's features so well that in the process it explained away one of them-the great deserts. This work shows the growth and eventual decay of a concept which attempts to relate the broad range of seemingly little-connected phenomena that physical geographers, in their several capacities, are still committed to study. It will be of interest to physical geographers and all scholars who are concerned with historical attitudes towards man's physical environment. (University of Toronto Department of Geography Publications No. 1).

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE AND THE WISDOM OF GOD: A THEME IN GEOTELEOLOGY

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE AND JOHN RAY

CHAPTER II. TRAILS AND INTIMATIONS

CHAPTER III. THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE: BURNET TO GUYOT

POSTSCRIPT

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Reprinted 2018. Originally published by University of Toronto Press, 1968.

Electronic reprint of original published by University of Toronto Press, 1968.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Other Format:

Original: Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God

ISBN:

9781487584535

1487584539

OCLC:

1129170854