BEYOND BELIEF
A Modern History of Revelation, Prophesy and Miracles
by
Geoffrey Poitras
(forthcoming)
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Image Gallery
St. Thomas (the Apostle
)
Michelangelo de Carravagio (1571-1610)
David Hume (1711-1776)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Joan of Arc's Interrogation
Gillot Saint-Evre (1835)
Richard Price
(1723-1791)
Adam Smith
(1723-1790)
Rachel Carson
(1907-1964)
Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)
Mary Shelley
(1797-1851)
Isaac Newton
(1643-1727)
Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473-1543)
Spanish Inquisition in Belgium
(1544)
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
St. Thomas Aquinas
(1225-1274)
Durer's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(1498)
Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759-1797).
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826).
Edmond Halley
(1656-1742)
Martin Luther
(1483-1546)
Goya (1820-3)
Saturn Devouring his Son
Bulls and Bears in the Market
by WH Beard (1879)
Storm on the Sea of Galilee
Rembrandt (1633)
Saturn
Peter Paul Rubens (1686)
Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Hieronymus Bosch
Garden of Earthly Delights (1504)
Saint Dominic presiding over an auto-da-fe against the Albigensians
Berruguete (1475)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Leader of the Luddites
(pub. 1812) from a drawing by an officer
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1936)
Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)
Coalbrookedale by Night
Philip de Loutherbourg (1801)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Saint Eulalia
John Waterhouse (1885)
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Joseph Wright of Derby (1768).
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Table of Contents for
Beyond Belief
Here are some interesting links:
The VOC shipwrecks site
The Galileo project at Rice U.
The Ottoman Empire site
A site about Revelation and the Apocalypse
Preliminary copy of
Valuation of Equity Securities
Information on ordering can be obtained by emailing
poitras@sfu.ca
