QUAKERS, JEWS, AND SCIENCE by Geoffrey Cantor ( 9780199276684 )

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Title:

QUAKERS, JEWS, AND SCIENCE
RELIGIOUS RESPONSES TO MODERNITY AND THE SCIENCES IN BRITAIN, 1650-1900

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0199276684

ISBN 13:

9780199276684

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 September, 2005

Pages:

432

Description:

How do science and religion interact? Geoffrey Cantor examines the ways in which the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities engaged with the sciences in early modern and 19th-century Britain. Of central interest are the responses of both communities to the challenge of modernity posed by Victorian science and especially by Darwin's controversial theory of evolution.

Synopsis:

How do science and religion interact? This study examines the ways in which two minorities in Britain - the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities - engaged with science. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material, much of which has not been analysed by previous historians, Geoffrey Cantor charts the participation of Quakers and Jews in many different aspects of science: scientific research, science education, science-related careers, and scientific institutions. The responses of both communities to the challenge of modernity posed by innovative scientific theories, such as the Newtonian worldview and Darwin's theory of evolution, are of central interest.

Illustrations:

1 table, 1 map, numerous halftones

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Oxford University Press

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Non-returnable

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