Article ID: CBB001220613

Laplace's Private Religious Discomfort (2010)

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Hahn, Roger (Author)


Almagest
Volume: 1, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 104-110

Despite his well-known atheistic stand, Laplace remained perplexed in his advanced age by the problems the absence of God might raise in the natural world.

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Authors & Contributors
Hahn, Roger
Cristina Santinelli
Jared Holley
Furani, Khaled
Stanley, Matthew
Xu, Chuansheng
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Science and Christian Belief
Journal of the History of Ideas
History of European Ideas
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Publishers
Brepols
University of Chicago Press
Oxford University Press
Edizioni ETS
Éditions Gallimard
Crítica
Concepts
Science and religion
Atheism; agnosticism; irreligion
Theology
Mathematics
Astronomy
Correspondence and corresponding
People
Laplace, Pierre Simon
Spinoza, Baruch
Paley, William
Malebranche, Nicolas de
Mairan, Jean Jacques Dortous de
Lord, Eleazar
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Enlightenment
21st century
20th century
Places
France
England
United States
Great Britain
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