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.

Colliber wrote also a number of religious tracts, including:

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. 1 2 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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 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.