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Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design

Reviewed by Edward B. Davis, History of Science, Messiah College This book by Stuart S. Peterfreund, professor of English at Northeastern University, episodically traces the history and rhetoric of British natural theology from the early seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. The unifying scheme is the identification of a few key “turning points,” when the…
Edward B. Davis
October 15, 2014