Charles Coulston Gillispie was Dayton Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University. Nicolaas A. Rupke is Professor and Director, Institute for the History of Science, Göttingen University.
Here…is a book to be read by all who wish to appreciate the
scientific and social background of the half-century or so
preceding the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
*Nature*
A lively account of the impact of scientific discoveries in geology
upon religious beliefs in the decades before Darwin, [this book]
will help to illuminate the one general problem of what happens
when scientific ideas come into headlong conflict with ideas
cherished by society.
*Saturday Review*
A learned and scholarly but at the same time readable and even
witty account of a fascinating chapter in the history of British
scientific thought and natural theology.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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