Commissioned as the third of the Bridgewater Treatises on the power, wisdom and goodness of God, this book examines the laws of nature and how neatly they fit together. Whewell surveys the solar system, the seasons, the atmosphere, heat, light and the nebular hypothesis, arguing that physical law points toward a designing mind.
A major work of natural theology by the Cambridge polymath who coined the word scientist. Download the free EPUB.