The Prae-Adamitae and the early Royal Society: two cases from the periphery

Isaac La Peyrere’s Prae-Adamitae (1655) and Socinian tendencies in the early Royal Society: some manuscripts of Francis Lodwick (1619-1694) and Francis Willughby (1635-1672). The hypothesis that there were men before Adam was most notoriously mooted by the dissident Calvinist Isaac La Peyrère, who w...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poole, W
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4783add3-81c1-4071-998f-d78828c56566