1698 1st Edtn AN EXAMINATION OF DR. BURNET'S THEORY OF THE EARTH BOUND WITH AN EXAMINATION OF THE REFLECTIONS ON THE THEORY OF THE EARTH By John Keill Illus. Very Good Philosophy

1698 1st Edition , 
AN EXAMINATION OF DR. BURNET'S THEORY OF THE EARTH BOUND WITH AN EXAMINATION OF THE REFLECTIONS ON THE THEORY OF THE EARTH

By John Keill
John Keill FRS (1 December 1671 – 31 August 1721) was a Scottish mathematician, natural philosopher, and cryptographer who was an important defender of Isaac Newton.

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Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
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Published By: Printed at The Theater Oxford, London

octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 432

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John Keill, Oxford's Savilian Professor of Mathematics, was one of the principal apostles of Newtonian mathematics who helped to establish Newton reputation in the face of the claims of Leibniz and others. in this work Keill attacked Thomas Burnet for his Cartesian Sacred Theory of the Earth, and William Whiston for his own natural philosophical account of the Earth's early history. Keill accused Burnet of manifesting arrogance by proposing a systematic solution to such difficult problems - and he pointed out that Newton had proved in his Principia that the vortices to which Descartes appealed were physically impossible. In his assault on Whiston, he singled out the latter's argument that a comet had given rise to Noah's flood and, in consequence, the oceans that persist today.

In 1698. Keill published Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. His volume contained scientific attacks on Burnet, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes and Nicolas Malebranche. This publication, along with his teaching, gained Keill notice in the English academic community. In 1700, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. However, after failing to get an academic appointment at Oxford in 1709, Keill left the university to seek a government position.



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