Books written by Geoffrey Cantor
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Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media
George Cruikshank's view of Murphy's humbug portrayed the crowds besieging a printer and the author as a barometer and thermometer, clutching a money bag and slily touching the side of his nose. George Cruikshank, 'Almaniac DaydA Rush ...
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Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement Of Science And Religion
90 J. F. M. Clark , ' Eleanor Ormerod ( 1828–1901 ) as an economic entomologist : “ pioneer of purity even more than of Paris Green ” , British Journal for the History of Science , 25 ( 1992 ) , 431–52 . 91 J. F. M. Clark , ' Science ...
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Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900
Cairns, D., 'Thomas Chalmers's astronomical discourses: a study in natural theology', Scottish Journal of Theology, 9 (1956), 410–21. Cajori, F. (ed.), Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 2 vols.
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Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature
This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.
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Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist: A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century
Gooding has written several insightful articles on different aspects of Faraday's natural philosophy, with particular emphasis on his magnetic ... in Faraday rediscovered, op. cit.; The making of meaning (Dordrecht and Boston, 1990).
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Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Faraday to Franklin, May 17, 1826, in The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, ed. ... Jerdan to Faraday, January 23, 1838, Correspondence, vol. 2, p. 487; William Jerdan, The Autobiography (London, 1852–1853), vol. 2, p. 234; vol. 3, p.
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Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism
See also Witham , Where Darwin Meets the Bible , 151 , and references to ch . 8 . 16. Witham , Where Darwin Meets the Bible , 159 . 17. Theodosius Dobzhansky , “ Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution ...
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Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851
Geoffrey Cantor presents an innovative reappraisal of the Exhibition, demonstrating that it was widely understood by contemporaries to possess a religious dimension and that it generated controversy among religious groups.
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Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900
conferred on a pharmacist who had really accomplished so little for science, and who had in many ways smaller merits than several others who ... In participating in such religiously open scientific societies, Quakers and Jews could ...
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Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives
27 Geoffrey Cantor, 'Friendsof science? The roleof sciencein Quaker periodicals', inHensonet al. (eds.), Culture and science, pp. 83–93.Seealso Cantor, Quakers, Jews,and science: Religiousresponses tomodernity andthe sciencesin Britain, ...
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The Great Exhibition Vol 2: A Documentary History
The Privy Seal Bill, procured by the above, being passed from Signet Office to Privy Seal Office, 9. ... patent at such a great outlay, he, being generally a poor man, keeps back 202 The Great Exhibition: A Documentary History, Volume 2.
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Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature
This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1800 and 1900.
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The Great Exhibition Vol 3: A Documentary History
Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the Exhibition.