The Bridgewater Treatises

Die Bridgewater Treatises sind eine Reihe naturtheologischer Schriften des 19. Jahrhunderts, die vom damaligen Earl of Bridgewater Francis Henry Egerton herausgegeben wurden (posthum erschienen 1833 - 1840).

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Einige Werke nahmen forthin einen hohen Stellenwert in der apologetischen Literatur ein. Eine erwähnenswerte Kritik stammt von Edgar Allan Poe^[1]. Der Anatom Robert Knox verulkte die Reihe als Bilgewater Treatises (übersetzt so viel wie Kielwasserjauchen-Traktat), was als Juxbegriff unter anderem in Briefen Charles Darwins vorzufinden ist. Als Trittbrettfahrer der Reihe veröffentlichte Charles Babbage einen von ihm als The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, A Fragment. bezeichneten Text^[2].

Einzelnachweise

1. ↑ Criticism, Edgar Allan Poe, (1850)
2. ↑ The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, A Fragment, Charles Babbage

Literatur

• A Bridgewater Treatise for the 21st Century. Science. (Vol 301, p. 1051, 22 August 2003).
• Babbage, C., The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise; Murray, 1837 (wiederveröffentlicht bei Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108000000)
• Chalmers, T., On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God. As Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1834 (wiederveröffentlicht bei Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108000727)
• Kirby, W., On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God. As Manifested in the Creation of Animals and in Their History, Habits and Instincts; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1835 (wiederveröffentlicht bei Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108000734)
• Paley, W., Natural Theology. Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature; Bridgewater Treatises, Faulder, 1803 (wiederveröffentlicht bei Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108003551)
• Prout, W., Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion Considered with Reference to Natural Theology; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1834 (wiederveröffentlicht bei Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108000666)
• Robson, John, 'The Fiat and Finger of God: The Bridgewater Treatises', Lightman, Bernard, and Frank Turner ed., Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief. 1990
• Roget, P.M., Animal and Vegetable Physiology. Considered with Reference to Natural Theology; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1834 (wiederveröffentlicht bei Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108000086)
• Whewell, W., Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1833 (wiederveröffentlicht bei Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 9781108000123)

Weblinks

• Babbage, Charles The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise 2nd edn. 1838, London: John Murray.

Die einzelnen Bridgewater Treatises

1. The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Condition of Man, Autor: Thomas Chalmers
2. On The Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, Autor: John Kidd
3. Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology, Autor: William Whewell
4. The hand, its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as evincing Design, Autor: Sir Charles Bell
5. Animal and Vegetable Physiology considered with reference to Natural Theology, Autor: Peter Mark Roget
6. Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology, Autor: William Buckland
7. The Habits and Instincts of Animals with reference to Natural Theology, Vol. 2, Autor: William Kirby
8. Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, considered with reference to Natural Theology, Autor: William Prout