Physico-theology

Ann Blair is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. She is the author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. Kaspar von Greyerz is professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Basel. He is the author of Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Ann Blair and Kaspar von GreyerzPart I. Terms and Purview of Physico-theologyChapter 1. Was Physico-theology Bad Theology and Bad Science?John Hedley Brooke Chapter 2. What's in a Name? "Physico-theology" in Seventeenth-Century EnglandPeter Harrison Chapter 3. The Form of a FlowerJonathan Sheehan Part II. National TraditionsChapter 4. What Was Physico-theology For?Scott MandelbroteChapter 5. Physico-theology in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic: The Case of Willem Goeree (1635–1711)Eric JorinkChapter 6. Back to the Roots? J. A. Fabricius's "Register of Ancient and Modern Writers" of 1728Kaspar von GreyerzPart III. Styles of ReligiosityChapter 7. Miracles, Secrets, and Wonders: Jakob Horst and Christian Natural Philosophy in German Protestantism before 1650Kathleen CrowtherChapter 8. "Rather Theological than Philosophical": John Ray's Seminal Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of CreationKatherine CallowayChapter 9. Matters of Belief and Belief That Matters: German Physico-theology, Protestantism, and the Materialized Word of God in NatureAnne-Charlott TreppChapter 10. Pascal's Rejection of Natural Theology: The Case of the Port-Royal Edition of the PenséesMartine PécharmanPart IV. Engagement with the New Science Chapter 11. Physico-theology or Biblical Physics? The Biblical Focus of the Early Physico-theologiansRienk VermijChapter 12. Maxima in minimis animalibus: Insects in Natural Theology and Physico-theologyBrian W. OgilvieChapter 13. What Abbé Pluche Owed to Early Modern Physico-theologiansNicolas BruckerChapter 14. Antonio Vallisneri between Faith and FloodBrendan DooleyPart V. Aesthetic Sensibilities Chapter 15. A Language for the Eye: Evidence within the Text and Evidence as Text in German Physico-theological LiteratureBarbara HunfeldChapter 16. A Hybrid Physico-theology: The Case of the Swiss ConfederationSimona Boscani LeoniBibliographyIndex

The essays provide good examples of the role that physico-theology played in the development of the sciences with which it was in conversation.—Thokozani Kamwendo, University of Durham, H-Net Reviews