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663: 136: 40: 682: 183:, Thomson was a popular science writer who had promoted a nonmaterialist interpretation of science though his interpretation was not accepted by all within the scientific community as some had claimed his views were neovitalist and thus outdated. 167:
as Thomson had claimed that mind can not emerge from matter and that it has existed in nature all the time. Thomson had believed there was life at all levels, he wrote that "there is nothing inanimate". He had however found the
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could transcend the physical laws governing its component parts. Some had termed the work of Geddes and Thomson as neovitalist though the position presented in their books is more closer to
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graduating with an MA in 1880. He had already established a reputation as a worthy scientist within his first years and in 1887, aged 25, he was elected a
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Holthius, L. B.; Ingle, R. W. (1989). "Isabella Gordon, D.SC., O.B.E.: 1901-1988".
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While at the University of Aberdeen Thomson supervised the research of respected
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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Reconciling science and religion: the debate in early-twentieth-century Britain
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In 1889 he married Margaret Robertson Stewart and they were parents to the
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Science and beliefs: from natural philosophy to natural science, 1700-1900
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Science for all: the popularization of science in early twentieth-century
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Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700-Present, Volume 2
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The Minds Of Animals: An Introduction To The Study Of Animal Behaviour
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THE NEW PUBLIC INTEREST IN SCIENCE (CHAPTER I - PART III)
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who authored several notable books and was an expert on
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John Arthur Thomson
J. A. Thompson

FRSE
naturalist
soft corals
East Saltoun
East Lothian
Muckhart
University of Edinburgh
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Patrick Geddes
J. T. Cunningham
Sir John Murray
Robert McNair Ferguson
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College
University of Aberdeen
Regius Professor of Natural History (Aberdeen)
A granite headstone, pointed like a Gothic arch, in a grassy churchyard
Limpsfield
Gifford lectures
Patrick Geddes
holistic
organism
panpsychism
vitalist
Henri Bergson
Peter J. Bowler
symbiosis
cooperation

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