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Subject: Re: Need Help with a History of Science Question

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maureen

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Date Posted: 18:43:39 01/30/03 Thu
In reply to: Jiby 's message, "Need Help with a History of Science Question" on 10:49:48 10/16/02 Wed

>Can someone please help me answer this essay question?
>If so, you can reply with an answer at jiby@ou.edu
>We need help!
>
>Our reading of Newton�s �General Scholium� (1713) and
>of excerpts from Hutton�s �Theory of the Earth� (1788)
>provides us with two texts from significant scientific
>works, both of which can be said to stipulate
>important links between knowledge of God and knowledge
>of nature. Compare and contrast the ways Newton and
>Hutton view these links. That is, what similarities
>and what differences do you see in the ways the ideas
>of these two scientists � as expressed in these
>readings � scientific knowledge (knowledge of nature)
>with basic ideas about divinity? Do such differences
>of conviction as are discernible appear to have
>consequences for the different sorts of scientific
>reasoning one associates with these two figures?
what is a fossil in liquid form called

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Re: Need Help with a History of Science Question	jonathan	21:54:54 06/10/03 Tue