Bridge water Treatises

Eight works, reconciling Science with Divinity, written by Fellows of the Royal Society (1832-36) in accordance with the bequest of £8,000 by the eccentric Earl of Bridge water for the best treatise On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodne of God as Manifested in the Creation. The authors were Sir Chas. Bell, The Hand as Evinc ing Design; William Kirby (2 vols.), Power, Wisdom, and Goodne of God in the Creation of Animals; Jno. Kidd, Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Conditions of Man; Wm. Whewell, Astronomy and General Physics with Reference to Natural Theology; Thomas Chalmers, Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Conditions of Man; Wm. Prout, Chemistry, Meteorology and Digestion with Reference to Natural Theology; Wm. Buck land (2 vols.), Geology and Miner alogy with Reference to Natural Theology; P. M. Roget (2 vols.), Animal and Vegetable Physiology with Reference to Natural Theology. IMG:content-0618.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0619.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0620.jpg:[graphic]