List Books » Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900
Authors: Geoffrey Cantor
ISBN-13: 9780199276684, ISBN-10: 0199276684
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Geoffrey Cantor is Professor of the History of Science, University of Leeds.
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.
1 | Introduction : science in 'dissenting' religious communities | 1 |
2 | Two communities | 19 |
3 | Education and careers | 44 |
4 | Scientific institutions | 102 |
5 | Trajectories in science | 159 |
6 | Quaker attitudes and practices | 225 |
7 | Quaker responses to evolution | 248 |
8 | Jewish attitudes and practices | 289 |
9 | Jewish responses to evolution | 321 |
10 | Historical comparisons and historiographical reflections | 346 |
App. 1 | Who is to count as a quaker or as a Jew? | 358 |
App. 2 | Oath and affirmation used at graduation ceremony at Edinburgh University | 361 |
App. 3 | Quaker and Jewish fellows of the royal society of London | 363 |