John Abernethy: Calvinist Natural Histories of the Soul in the Seventeenth Century

Early Science and Medicine 17 (1):254-271 (2012)
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This paper looks at the relation of natural history, in its guise as an observational genre and one which tended to offer competing explanations of its phenomena, to the discourse of practical divinity. Natural history is here intended as a genre in which the practice of observation is accorded a significant place and a genre which lends itself to the accumulation of competing explanatory accounts of the phenomena. In particular, it examines the relation of the cognitive and the practical with respect to a rather unusual instance of that discourse. It attempts to site the work of practical divinity vertically, horizontally and orthogonally.

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