Contents: Introduction: Stepping out of Merton's shadow, Paul Wood; Science and dissent: some historiographical issues, John Hedley Brooke; To discourse of God: Isaac Newton's heterodox theology and his natural philosophy, Stephen D. Snobelen; Science, technology and dissent in English provincial culture: from Newtonian transformation to agnostic incarnation, John Money; The public culture of radical philosophers in 18th-century London, Larry Stewart; Natural philosophers in a coffee house: dissent, radical reform and pneumatic chemistry, Trevor H. Levere; Real disabilities?: Quaker schools as 'nurseries' of science, Geoffrey Cantor; Condescending harmony: John Pye Smith's mosaic geology, Richard Helmstadter; Interpreting agnosticism as a nonconformist sect: T.H. Huxley's 'New Reformation', Bernard Lightman; 'If gold ruste what shall iren do?': Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Quakerism and science, Hannah Gay; Creed and experience: Eddington on science and religion, Alan H. Batten; Index.
Paul Wood is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, Canada. Paul Wood, John Hedley Brooke, Stephen D. Snobelen, John Money, Larry Stewart, Trevor H. Levere, Geoffrey Cantor, Richard Helmstadter, Bernard Lightman, Hannah Gay, Alan H. Batten.
'This is a superb collection of essays which will surely reward repeated reading. Its excellence resides not simply in the fact that each of the essays is packed with information and judicious historical and historiographical guidance, but also in the fact that collectively they inspire serious contemplation on the relationship between those two most noble cognitive systems, science and religion.' Ecclesiastical History 'Rarely in the history of scholarly endeavour can there have been a more complex assignment!... the results are uniformly impressive.' English Historical Review ’This volume contains some important and intriguing essays on the scientific interests of members of the Dissenting religious traditions.’ Metascience
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