Samuel Colliber

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

^ ^a ^b Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Colliber, Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ John W. Yolton (February 1984). Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-0-8166-6058-2.
^ Philip C. Almond (12 February 2009). Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England. Cambridge University Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-521-10125-7.
^ Wayne I. Boucher (1991). Spinoza in English: A Bibliography from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. Brill. p. 49. ISBN 90-04-09499-7.
^ 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.
^ 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.

External links

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Attribution

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.

[DNB-1] Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Colliber, Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[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] Philip C. Almond (12 February 2009). Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England. Cambridge University Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-521-10125-7.

[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] 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] 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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