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Pure Intelligence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

Pure Intelligence

William Hyde Wollaston was born into a large, religious, and scientifically informed family in 1766 and died sixty-two years later as one of the Western world s most highly regarded scientists. With encouragement from his well-connected father, he studied medicine at Cambridge, and began practicing as a physician in the provinces before moving his practice to London in 1797, arriving in the capital about the same time as his illustrious colleagues Humphry Davy and Thomas Young. After a few years in London, Wollaston abandoned the vocation he had come to dislike and bravely set out to make his living as a chemical entrepreneur, while pursuing his intellectual interests in a wide range of cont...

The Ethics of William Wollaston
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

The Ethics of William Wollaston

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1922
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Religion of Nature Delineated
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

The Religion of Nature Delineated

The Religion of Nature Delineated is a book by Anglican cleric William Wollaston that describes a system of ethics that can be discerned without recourse to revealed religion. It was first published in 1722, two years before Wollaston's death. Due to its influence on eighteenth-century philosophy and his promotion of a natural religion, the book claims for Wollaston a ranking as one of the great British Enlightenment philosophers, along with John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. It contributed to the development of two important intellectual schools: British Deism, and the pursuit of happiness moral philosophy of American Practical Idealism which appears in the United States Declaration of Independence.

Dereham's Forgotten Scientist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 20

Dereham's Forgotten Scientist

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Ethics of William Wollaston
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Ethics of William Wollaston

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1922
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Religion of Nature Delineated
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

The Religion of Nature Delineated

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1725
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley, their ancestors and descendants, etc
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452
The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 918

The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1811
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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