THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS
Book Details + Condition: Gould & Lincoln (Boston). First (American) Edition, 1854. By William Whewell. 307 pages, with frontispiece of spiral galaxies. With an Introduction by Edward Hitchcock. Whewell was a noted geologist. The book argues on geological grounds that conjectures about other populated worlds and long periods before humans came to exist are scientifically unsupported. Thus Whewell is using science to defend the Biblical account of Creation, and Christianity. Edward Hitchcock was an American geologist and president of Amherst College. Contents include: Astronomical Discoveries; Astronomical Objection to Religion; The Answers from the Microscope; Geology; The Fixed Stars; Planets; Theory of the Solar System; The Future; and much more. A solid copy, with tight binding; lightly rubbed corners; light shelf wear to boards; book slightly cocked; foxing to first few and last pages; corner ripped to protective tissue paper of frontispiece; small repaired tear; text is clean and unmarked.
