
2016
First Published
114
Number of Pages
This book is considered as the earliest contributions to natural philosophy. Philosopher and theologian, Henry More used the details of the mechanical philosophy, as developed by René Descartes or Robert Boyle, to establish the existence of immaterial substance, and, therefore, God.
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Henry More
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Henry More FRS (1614–1687) was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school. Henry was born at Grantham and was schooled at The King's School, Grantham and at Eton College. Both his parents were Calvinists but he himself "could never swallow that hard doctrine."