The Bridgewater Treatises

Die Bridgewater Treatises s​ind eine Reihe naturtheologischer Schriften d​es 19. Jahrhunderts, d​ie von Francis Egerton, 8. Earl o​f Bridgewater, herausgegeben wurden (posthum erschienen 1833–1840).

Reaktionen

Einige Werke nahmen forthin e​inen hohen Stellenwert i​n der apologetischen Literatur ein. Eine erwähnenswerte Kritik stammt v​on Edgar Allan Poe.[1] Der Anatom Robert Knox verulkte d​ie Reihe a​ls Bilgewater Treatises (Bilgewasser-Traktat), w​as als Juxbegriff u​nter anderem i​n Briefen Charles Darwins vorzufinden ist. Als Trittbrettfahrer d​er Reihe veröffentlichte Charles Babbage e​inen von i​hm 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. In: Science. Vol 301, 22. August 2003, S. 1051.
• C. Babbage: The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. Murray, 1837. (wiederveröffentlicht bei Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00000-0)
• T. Chalmers: 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 978-1-108-00072-7)
• W. Kirby: 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 978-1-108-00073-4)
• W. Paley: 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 978-1-108-00355-1)
• W. Prout: 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 978-1-108-00066-6)
• John Robson: The Fiat and Finger of God: The Bridgewater Treatises. In: Bernard Lightmand, Frank Turner: Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief. 1990, ISBN 0-333-49660-4.
• P. M. Roget: Animal and Vegetable Physiology. Considered with Reference to Natural Theology. (= Bridgewater Treatises). W. Pickering, 1834 (wiederveröffentlicht bei Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00008-6)
• W. Whewell: Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology. (= Bridgewater Treatises). W. Pickering, 1833 (wiederveröffentlicht bei Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00012-3)

Weblinks

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

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