Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900 - Rilegato

Cantor, Geoffrey

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ISBN 10: 0199276684 ISBN 13: 9780199276684

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2005

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Geoffrey Cantor is Professor of the History of Science, University of Leeds.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199276684
• ISBN 13: 9780199276684
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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