The Idea of Nature

In this work Collingwood considered the prevailing concepts of 'nature' in 'three periods of constructive cosmological thinking' - the Greek, the renaissance and the modern.

...valuable to philosophers and indispensable to scientists and theologians. No modern philosopher has demonstrated with equal range of insight and equal grace of pellucid writing the intricacies of cosmology - man's conception of nature. - The Guardian, UK