* Reiner Smolinski, " How to Go to Heaven, or How Heaven Goes: Natural Science and Interpretation in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana ( 1690-1728 )," in, The New England Quarterly 81. 2 ( June 2008 ): 278-329

Natural Science and Interpretation in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana ( 1693-1728 )" The New England Quarterly 81. 2 ( 2008 ) 278-329.

But his famous Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion were not published until 1779, by which time deism had almost vanished in England.

Category: Natural disasters in England

In 2007, Natural England officially incorporated the Budby South Forest, Nottinghamshire's largest area of dry lowland heath, into the Nature Reserve, nearly doubling its size from.

Totnes ( or ) is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The Broads Authority also has members appointed by Natural England, Great Yarmouth Port Authority and the Environment Agency.

Natural England has identified the following seven natural areas in Sussex:

In 1663 the Invisible College became the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, and the charter of incorporation granted by Charles II of England, named Boyle a member of the council.

Notable was the early New England Museum of Natural History, ( now the Museum of Science ) which opened in Boston in 1864.

Gilbert White, in The Natural History of Selborne made note of the increased consumption of vegetables by ordinary country people in the south of England, to which, he noted, potatoes had only been added during the reign of George III: " Green-stalls in cities now support multitudes in comfortable state, while gardeners get fortunes.

It has been an open public space since the Wormwood Scrubs Act of 21 July 1879, and is recognised by Natural England as an important site of natural significance.

* Patrick V. Kirch, " Natural Experiments of History " anthology edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, Chapter one " Controlled Comparison and Polynesian Cultural Evolution " by Patrick V. Kirch, pages 28 & 29, ( The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England ), 2010.

The first such organization was the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, which is the National Trust of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, formed in 1895 and operating as a charitable organisation.

Following a review by Christopher Haskins, Baron Haskins of Skidby of several Government organisations involved in rural policy and delivery, the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 merged those parts of the Countryside Agency charged with environmental activity with English Nature and parts of the Rural Development Service to form Natural England.

By caring for the built environment, English Heritage complements the work of Natural England which aims to protect the natural environment.

In England, the designating body for SSSIs, Natural England, selects biological SSSIs from within Natural Areas which are areas with particular landscape and ecological characteristics, or on a county basis.

The decision to notify an SSSI is made by the official nature conservation body ( the appropriate conservation body ) for that part of the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage or the Countryside Council for Wales.

For the purposes of selecting candidate SSSIs, Natural England and its predecessors use a system termed " Areas of Search " ( AOSs ).

* Natural England ( 2009 ) Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) ISBN 978-1-84754-036-2

* Natural Baltic amber – gemstone which has undergone mechanical treatment only ( for instance: grinding, cutting, turning or polishing ) without any change to its natural properties

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

In March, 2012 the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruling in an action brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council and others, ordered the FDA to revoke approvals for the use of antibiotics in livestock which violated FDA regulations.

Natural beryllium, save for slight contamination by cosmogenic radioisotopes, is essentially beryllium-9, which has a spin of-3 / 2.

If nature cannot err, then there are no paradoxes in it ; to Hobbes, the paradox is a form of the absurd, which is inconsistency: " Natural sense and imagination, are not subject to absurdity " and " For error is but a deception ...

Natural boron is composed of two stable isotopes, one of which ( boron-10 ) has a number of uses as a neutron-capturing agent.

Because of continued pressure on space the decision was taken to move natural history to a new building in South Kensington, which would later become the British Museum of Natural History.

These arguments, and a discussion of the distinctions between absolute and relative time, space, place and motion, appear in a Scholium at the very beginning of Newton's work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ( 1687 ), which established the foundations of classical mechanics and introduced his law of universal gravitation, which yielded the first quantitatively adequate dynamical explanation of planetary motion.

Natural selection is the evolutionary process by which heritable traits that increase an individual's fitness become more common, and heritable traits that decrease an individual's fitness become less common.

Natural resources include fish and a climate and beaches that foster tourism, which is the islands ' major industry.

Robert Filmer ’ s Patriarcha: or the Natural Power of Kings, which had been written before the English Civil War, became accepted as the statement of their doctrine.

On June 4, 1998, the city officially opened the Museum Campus, a lakefront park, surrounding three of the city's main museums, each of which is of national importance: the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

that which upholds, supports or maintains the regulatory order of the universe ) means Law or Natural Law and is a concept of central importance in Indian philosophy and religion.

He returned to Germany in 1930 and in 1931 he accepted a curatorial position at the American Museum of Natural History, where he played the important role of brokering and acquiring the Walter Rothschild collection of bird skins, which was being sold in order to pay off a blackmailer.

In 1990, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their paper " Natural Language & Natural Selection " which strongly argued for an adaptationist approach to language origins.

# Evergreen needleleaf forest – Natural forest with > 30 % canopy cover, in which the canopy is predominantly (> 75 %) needleleaf and evergreen.

# Deciduous needleleaf forests – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, in which the canopy is predominantly (> 75 %) needleleaf and deciduous.

# Mixed broadleaf / needleleaf forest – Natural forest with > 30 % canopy cover, in which the canopy is composed of a more or less even mixture of needleleaf and broadleaf crowns ( between 50: 50 % and 25: 75 %).

# Deciduous broadleaf forest – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, in which > 75 % of the canopy is deciduous and broadleaves predominate (> 75 % of canopy cover ).

# Freshwater swamp forest – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, composed of trees with any mixture of leaf type and seasonality, but in which the predominant environmental characteristic is a waterlogged soil.