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Reading the Book of Nature : How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Topham, Jonathan R.
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Books and reading > England > History > 19th century.
Religion and science > England > History > 19th century.
SCIENCE / General.
Books and reading.
Religion and science.
England.
1800-1899
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Note for Teachers
  • Introduction. Reading the Book of Nature
  • Prelude. Trouble over Bridgewater
  • Part I. Writing
  • Chapter 1. Becoming a Bridgewater Author
  • Chapter 2. Writing God into Nature
  • Part II. Publishing
  • Chapter 3. Distributing Design
  • Chapter 4. Science Serialized
  • Part III. Reading
  • Chapter 5. Science and the Practice of Religion
  • Chapter 6. Preachers and Protagonists
  • Chapter 7. Being a Christian "Man of Science"
  • Chapter 8. Religion and the Practice of Science
  • Conclusion. "The Fashionable Reign of the Bridgewater Treatises"
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: Note on Currency and the Value of Money
  • Appendix B: British Editions of the Bridgewater Treatises
  • Appendix C: British Reviews of the Bridgewater Treatises, 1833-38
  • Works Cited
  • Index