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Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon

From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science

Stanley, Matthew

Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon

Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon

From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science

Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon

 

Explores the overlap and shift between theistic and naturalistic science through a parallel study of two major scientific figures: James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian physicist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the iconoclast biologist who coined the word agnostic.

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Beschrijving Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon

Explores the overlap and shift between theistic and naturalistic science through a parallel study of two major scientific figures: James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian physicist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the iconoclast biologist who coined the word agnostic.

ISBN
9780226164878
Pagina's
336
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NUR
910
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
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The University of Chicago Press

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