A Course of Physico-Theological Lecttures

uopn the state of the World from the creation to the deluge

Robert Miln

Carlisle printed by J Milliken 1786 [First Edition] 

xxv [including last unnumbered list page of subscribers] + 383

apparently lacking pps 379-382

measures 130mm x 210mm

First edition, defending the Biblical interpretation of creation and of geological time, and seeking to reconcile the increasing geological evidence as outlined by Whitehurst and others with the traditional Christian belief of creation as a single process. It is worth noting that the work was published just eight years before William Paley's View of the Evidences of Christianity, and that Paley's name is on the subscribers' list, joining other notable subscribers including Joseph Priestley, William Cullen, Richard Price, and Richard Neave, governor of the Bank of England.

This being a subscribers copy Thomas Wilson of Whitehaven

Increasingly uncommon thus - sold with flaws described / shown

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