Part 1 The book of nature: standing on the shoulders of giants - the intellectual background; "soe suitable to my genius" - an 18th-century education; the microcosm - doctor and anatomies; the macrocosm - new theories of the universe. Part 2 The book of God: the curious itinerary - antiquities and the history of Britain; the long-lost truth - ancient history and the origins of theology; much greater than commonly imagined - Celtic Druids and the universal religion; "I have every been studious in divinity" - archaeology in Defence of Newtoninism; "a truely to-be-respected - the reputation of Dr Stukeley; these learned lives - the influence of Dr Stukeley.
DAVID BOYD HAYCOCK is Leverhulme Research Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester, and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
David Boyd Haycock's excellent biography ably demonstrates that
there was much more to Stukeley than stone circles. [It is] a work
that on the one hand uses an impressive range of printed and
underexploited manuscript sources and on the other brings to
Stukeley's career a sophisticated historical analysis that places
its subject firmly in his intellectual and religious worlds.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*
The major theme to Haycock's study is the reconstruction of the
intellectual background which shaped the development of Stukeley's
thought and influenced the direction of his studies and his
interpretation of the evidence... A long overdue re-assessment.
HISTORICAL JOURNAL An exemplary work of intellectual history, a
revisionist biography and something of a 'rescue archaeology' for
Stukeley himself and for the subject of antiquarian studies.
HISTORY [This] massively researched and clear-headed biography is a
spectacular exercise in interdisciplinarity. CHURCH TIMES Supplies
us with much new information about Stukeley's life and activities.
JNL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY A welcome addition to the literature
on this learned physician and cleric.... [This] well-rounded study
significantly extends our understanding of Stukeley. BRITISH
JOURNAL for the HISTORY OF SCIENCE. A judicious, sensitive, and
rewarding book which describes Stukeley's own ideas and their
intellectual context.. A fine biography and a fine work of
intellectual history.
*SOUTHERN HISTORY*
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