This book was the last of eight treatises from the 1830s that were
commissioned by the Royal Society with advice from leading
churchmen under the terms of a legacy from the Earl of Bridgewater.
They aimed to support the idea that the natural world was made by a
divine designer. William Prout, a respected physician and
biochemist who specialised in nutrition and urology, argues in the
introduction to this book that the biological adaptation seen in
nature is divinely planned as a means to an end. His text covers
chemistry, geology, the ocean, the planets, and processes of the
human body. Remembered today for his discovery of hydrochloric acid
in the gastric juices of animals, here Prout is on the front line
in the early battles between scientific method and religious
belief, a debate which continues to this day.
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