Volume 2

The religious philosopher, or, the right use of contemplating the works of the Creator / ... Designed for the conviction of atheists and infidels ... by that learned mathematician Dr. Nieuwentyt ; Translated from the original by John Chamberlayne ... To which is prefix'd, a letter to the translator, by the Reverend J.T. Desaguliers. Adorned with cuts.

Bernard Nieuwentyt

Date:: 1718-1719

Credit: The religious philosopher, or, the right use of contemplating the works of the Creator / ... Designed for the conviction of atheists and infidels ... by that learned mathematician Dr. Nieuwentyt ; Translated from the original by John Chamberlayne ... To which is prefix'd, a letter to the translator, by the Reverend J.T. Desaguliers. Adorned with cuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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This worthy Author (that we, may catry the - Comparifon yet farther) lays..down.in_his. Cof- motheoros fome fettled Mathematical Truths, and which Experience has render’d. certain;..and.. fhews how his Conjectures may be made to agree . therewith : Now what has an. Atheift ever done like this, who never could. advance any. other” than his own fimple Notions for:a Foundation. to his Sentiments? _ ye Moreover, if. Mr. Auigens fappofes, that it can- not. be proved to, be impoffible in Nature, that ; there is Land and Sea-Animals, Plants, and the -like an the Planets ; he fhews likewife, by an un-. deniable Experience, that fomething analogous .is. found upon.this Globe. On.the. contrary, an Atheift maintains, that fuch furprifing Mafter- pieces, 2s Animals and Plants are produced by Chance, at leaft, without the Wifdom of the Maker; in which, however, fo many well adapt- ed Inftruments, and fo many different Motions, all ferving to.the fame Purpofe, are to be feen.: Notwithftanding which, he ,has never yet been able to fhew any thinglike them in Works of much leffer Skill-and Artifice, fuch as Watches, Mills, oreven.in the fimple StruGure of Honfes, and. Chambers, which for the Number of Inftruments and multiplicity of .Motions, fall infinitely fhort ‘ of any living Creature or Plant. . . Finally,” Notwithftanding allthefe things, this Gentleman confeffés all his Speculations to be no more than ConjeGtures; whilft the Atheift, that. cannot advance near fo far, and who has the ana-. logous Experiments perfe@ly againft him, will have, his Notions pafs for irrefragable Truths, even with the Danger of everlafting Mifery. : The End of the Second Volume.

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