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

Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199276684)

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

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

$190.00
Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900 by Cantor, Geoffrey

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

$190.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Geoffrey Cantor
ISBN-10: 0199276684
ISBN-13: 9780199276684
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2005
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d
By Geoffrey Cantor
By Geoffrey Cantor
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Geoffrey Cantor is Professor of the History of Science, University of Leeds.

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