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[TAIT, PETER GUTHRIE AND STEWART, BALFOUR] The Unseen Universe Or Physical Speculations on a Future State
London, Macmillan, 1875, Second Edition. Half-Leather and Cloth , 8vo. xx+212pp. Half-calf and cloth, raised bands, leather title label to spine, gilt decoration to spine, t.e.g. Very minor wear externally, internally fairly bright and clean. "Although Tait's efforts to promote the science of energy as a natural philosophy in harmony with Christian belief were fully endorsed by North British allies, his publication (with Balfour Stewart) of the anonymous Unseen Universe, or, Physical Speculations on a Future State (1875) and its sequel, Paradoxical Philosophy (1878), was controversial. Ostensibly directed against the materialistic determinism of Tyndall's notorious Belfast address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1874), the Unseen Universe, consistent with Tait's political convictions, offered a conservative rather than a progressive vision. A visible universe in temporal decay formed part of an invisible whole in which the dissipation of energy did not appear to operate as a fundamental law. This unseen and eternal whole then provided the rationale for human immortality. It was a unified vision of things material and spiritual, human and divine, which suggested a self-renewing universe (like a perfectly reversible heat engine) rather at odds with Thomson's and Maxwell's decisive separation of the material (and transitory) from the spiritual (and eternal) worlds. Unseen Universe had reached its fourth edition within a year and its tenth by 1883" (Oxford DNB) , Good+.
Offered for GBP 50.00 = appr. US$ 79.65 by: Red Star Books - Book number: 14097
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