Men of Science, Men of God by Morris Henry

Author:Morris, Henry [Morris, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY &#38
ISBN: 9781614582779
Publisher: Master Books
Published: 1982-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Statue of Thomas Chalmers

Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) was a leader in the Church of Scotland and professor of theology in the University of Edinburgh. He authored the first two Bridgewater Treatises, published in two volumes under the title The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man. He wrote extensively on both the natural and social sciences, as well as theology, and was chiefly responsible for the popularization of the “gap theory” as a supposed defense of the Genesis record against the uniformitarian geologists.

William Prout (1785–1850) authored one of the Bridgewater treatises: Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology. As a chemist and physiologist, he was an early leader in the sciences of nutrition and digestion and was the first to identify basic foodstuffs as fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. He is best known, however, for recognizing that the atomic weights of elements could be identified as a series of relative whole numbers.

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