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3 unusual facts about William Paley


1953–54 United States network television schedule

Despite hit filmed programs such as I Love Lucy, both William Paley of CBS and David Sarnoff of NBC were said to be determined to keep most programming on their networks live.

Jeffrey A. Krames

As former Vice President and Publisher of McGraw-Hill's trade business books division, Jeffrey Krames has personally edited and published more than 275 business books, including many award-winning, best-selling titles on business luminaries that include Jack Welch, Michael Ovitz, Ross Perot, William Paley, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Herb Kelleher, and Lou Gerstner among others.

Transmutation of species

In Britain, where the philosophy of natural theology remained influential, William Paley wrote the book Natural Theology with its famous watchmaker analogy, at least in part as a response to the transmutational ideas of Erasmus Darwin.


An Essay on the Principle of Population

The 1st edition influenced writers of natural theology such as William Paley and Thomas Chalmers.

Henry Majendie

He was educated at Charterhouse and at Christ's College, Cambridge where he graduated B.A. in 1776; though he did not have an honours degree, he was made Fellow in the same year, in the vacancy caused by the departure of William Paley.

John Heysham

He was close to the Carlisle Cathedral chapter, and was thought to have assisted Archdeacon William Paley on questions of design in nature.

Susan Faye Cannon

In the early 1960s he wrote influential articles on uniformitarian geology, the 'Cambridge network', William Whewell's tidology, John Herschel, the relation of Charles Darwin to William Paley, liberal Anglicanism, and the general place of science in nineteenth-century culture.


see also

A Clockwork Origin

It could also be considered a reference to William Paley's Watchmaker analogy, a teleological argument found in his work Natural Theology.