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America (Netherlands) (search for this): entry berkeley-george
Kilkenny (Irish Republic) (search for this): entry berkeley-george
Berkeley, George, 1684-1753
Bishop of Cloyne; born in Kilcrin, Kilkenny, Ireland, March 12, 1684; was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; became a Fellow there; and at an early age wrote on scientific subjects.
Between 1710 and 1713 his two famous works appeared, in which he denies the existence of matter, and argues that it is not without the mind, but within it, and that that which is called matter is only an impression produced by divine power on the mind by the invariable laws of nature.
On a tour in France he visited the French philosopher Malebranche, who became so excited by a discussion with Berkeley on the non-existence of matter that, being ill at the time, he died a few days afterwards.
Miss Vanhomrigh (Swift's Vanessa ) bequeathed to Berkeley $20,000: and in 1728 his income was increased $5,500 a year by being made Dean of Derry.
Berkeley conceived a plan for establishing a college in the Bermudas for the instruction of pastors for the colonial churches and mission
Oxford (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry berkeley-george
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): entry berkeley-george
Whitehall (Georgia, United States) (search for this): entry berkeley-george
Dublin (Irish Republic) (search for this): entry berkeley-george
Berkeley, George, 1684-1753
Bishop of Cloyne; born in Kilcrin, Kilkenny, Ireland, March 12, 1684; was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; became a Fellow there; and at an early age wrote on scientific subjects.
Between 1710 and 1713 his two famous works appeared, in which he denies the existence of matter, and argues that it is not without the mind, but within it, and that that which is called matter is only an impression produced by divine power on the mind by the invariable laws of nature.
On a tour in France he visited the French philosopher Malebranche, who became so excited by a discussion with Berkeley on the non-existence of matter that, being ill at the time, he died a few days afterwards.
Miss Vanhomrigh (Swift's Vanessa ) bequeathed to Berkeley $20,000: and in 1728 his income was increased $5,500 a year by being made Dean of Derry.
Berkeley conceived a plan for establishing a college in the Bermudas for the instruction of pastors for the colonial churches and missiona
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry berkeley-george
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): entry berkeley-george
St. Christopher (Saint Kitts and Nevis) (search for this): entry berkeley-george
France (France) (search for this): entry berkeley-george