About Samuel Colliber
Lived 1650 – 1737 (aged 86–87). Samuel Colliber was a British philosopher.
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: and which ran through several editions; The Christian Religion Founded on Reason (1729); Free Thoughts concerning Souls (1734), citing Spinoza; and The Known God, or the Author of Nature unveiled (1737).
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.
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