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In an address presented on August 20, 1891 at the Sixty-First Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science the President of the Association’s Section of Mathematics and Physical Science discussed various scientific developments. The speaker started with brief mentions of Michael Faraday’s centenary, and the death of Wilhelm Web...
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... Some even argued that some ideas in physics supported religious ideas, as did Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait (Figure 2) in their controversial and widely read book The Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a Future State (1875), a work discussed later by Noakes. Stewart and Tait argued for the existence of a universe that could not be perceived by our senses but was connected with the known universe, and for the lack of incompatibility between religion and science. ...
