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Samuel Colliber

Samuel Colliber

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Samuel Colliber (fl. 1718–1737) was an English writer, a lay author on theological and naval matters. John Knox Laughton suggested he was a Royal Navy volunteer or schoolmaster.

Works

Colliber published in 1727 Columna Rostrata, a naval history with significant coverage of the Anglo-Dutch wars of the 17th century. It took account of Dutch and French sources. A second edition was published in 1742.[1]

Colliber wrote also a number of religious tracts, including:[1]

  • An Impartial Enquiry into the Existence and Nature of God (1718, 230 pp.), citing Pierre Poiret and Hermann Alexander Roëll [de] among other Cartesian thinkers,[2] and which ran through several editions;
  • The Christian Religion Founded on Reason (1729);[3]
  • Free Thoughts concerning Souls (1734), citing Spinoza;[4] and
  • The Known God, or the Author of Nature unveiled (1737).

Colliber took up the ideas of Samuel Clarke on the existence of God, and his modifications influenced Edmund Law.[5] Joseph Priestley cited Colliber against Cartesian plenism.[6]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Colliber, Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. [2]
    John W. Yolton (February 1984). Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-0-8166-6058-2.
  3. [3]
    Philip C. Almond (12 February 2009). Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England. Cambridge University Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-521-10125-7.
  4. [4]
    Wayne I. Boucher (1991). Spinoza in English: A Bibliography from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. Brill. p. 49. ISBN 90-04-09499-7.
  5. [5]
    Knud Haakonssen (2006). The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. p. 716. ISBN 978-0-521-86743-6. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  6. [6]
    Robert E. Schofield (1 January 1997). The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773. Penn State Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-271-02510-7.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Colliber, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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