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

Cantor, Geoffrey

 
9780199276684: Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0199276684 ISBN 13: 9780199276684
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2005

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199276684
ISBN 13 
9780199276684
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
432