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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.

Colliber wrote also a number of religious tracts, including:

  • 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, and which ran through several editions;
  • The Christian Religion Founded on Reason (1729);
  • Free Thoughts concerning Souls (1734), citing Spinoza; 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. Joseph Priestley cited Colliber against Cartesian plenism.

Notes

  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.

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.

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