Quakers, jews, and science: religious responses to modernity and the sciences in britain, 1650-1900
Auteur :
Cantor, Geoffrey
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199276684
Date de publication :
22 sept. 2005
Dimensions :
24,2 x 16,3 x 2,7 cm
Poids :
910 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.