Victorian Britain Category
Science and Religion: Some New Historical Perspectives: The Book-history Approach
Posted on November 26, 2013 Leave a Comment
As a doctoral student, Jonathan R. Topham worked under the inspiring tutelage of John Hedley Brooke, coming under the influence of his “diversity of interaction” regarding science-religion relations, which became a central part of his own study of the Bridgewater treatises of the 1830s. In his essay, “Science, Religion, and the History of the Book,” […]
A Brief Word on Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Posted on November 22, 2013 Leave a Comment
Interrupting the flow of my synopsis of Dixon’s et al. Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives, I want to briefly share some exciting research prospects. I have been burying myself in recent weeks in literature on the popularization of science and the circulation of periodicals and newspapers in nineteenth-century Britain. A number of scholars have […]
Science and Religion: Some New Historical Perspectives: A Word on Narratives
Posted on November 21, 2013 Leave a Comment
Having discussed the implications of recent literature that categorizes both “science” and “religion” as nineteenth-century social constructs, the same argument is applied to the scientific revolution by Margaret J. Osler in “Religion and the Changing Historiography of the Scientific Revolution.” The idea that there was a “Scientific Revolution” between 1500 and 1700 and that this […]