The Unseen Universe
Physical Speculations on a Future State
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- Author: Balfour Stewart
- Date Published: September 2009
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108004541
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In 1875, the geophysicist Balfour Stewart and the mathematician P. G. Tait published the second edition of The Unseen Universe. The book's aim had been 'to overthrow materialism by a purely scientific argument', and its initial success, and the controversy it aroused, prompted this revised edition. The treatise suggests that science and religion could be reconciled, and that by using science, it could be proved that the soul survives after death. The book begins with a historical account of the beliefs about the afterlife of ancient Egypt, the Greeks, Buddhism and Christianity. The authors then refine a Ptolemaic vision of the universe in which the material universe is surrounded by concentric, invisible universes. The Unseen Universe discusses the nature of matter and ether, Newton's laws, and the idea that, through electromagnetism, the soul upon death transfers molecularly from the visible to the invisible universe.
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- Date Published: September 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108004541
- length: 236 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.31kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1. Introductory sketch
2. Position taken by the authors—physical axioms
3. The present physical universe
4. Matter and ether
5. Development
6. Speculations as to the possibility of superior intelligences in the visible universe
7. The unseen universe.
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