Matthew D. Eddy

Science and Beliefs (eBook, ePUB)

From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700-1900
Redaktion: Knight, David M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The years between 1700 and 1900 witnessed a fundamental transition in attitudes towards science, as earlier concepts of natural philosophy were replaced with a more modern conception of science. Approaching its subject from a number of cultural angles, the essays in this volume explore the relationship between science and belief during this crucial period and help trace the development of science as an independent field of study that did not look to religion to provide answers to the workings of the universe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351901932
• Artikelnr.: 48418584

Autorenporträt

Professor David M. Knight is at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Durham, UK. Matthew D. Eddy is Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Durham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Science and beliefs, David M. Knight. Part I
Beliefs Within Science: The metaphysics of science in the Romantic era,
Barry Gower; Rearranging 17th-century natural history into natural
philosophy: 18th-century editions of Boyle's works, Harriet Knight;
Boundary work: 'national quarrels and party factions' in 18th-century
British botany, Susan McMahon; Sociability, utility and curiosity in the
Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-60, Michael Honeybone; Set in stone:
medicine and the vocabulary of the earth in 18th-century Scotland, Matthew
D. Eddy; Scientific servicemen in the Royal Navy and the
professionalisation of science, 1816-55, Randolph Cock; Expertise and
Christianity: high standards versus the free market in popular publishing,
Aileen Fyfe. Part II Beliefs Underlying Science: Darwinian 'becoming' and
early 19th-century historiography: the cases of Jules Michelet and Thomas
Carlyle, Richard Somerset; Charles Darwin: a Christian undermining
Christianity?, Momme von Sydow; Michael Faraday meets the 'high-priestess
of God's works': a romance on the theme of science and religion, Geoffrey
Cantor; An 'open clash between Science and the Church'?: Wilberforce,
Huxley and Hooker on Darwin at the British Association, Oxford, 1860, Frank
A.J.L. James; The invention of altruism: August Comte's Positive Polity and
respectable unbelief in Victorian Britain, Thomas Dixon; The radiometer and
its lessons: William Carpenter versus William Crookes, William H.
Brock; From science to the popularisation of science: the career of J.
Arthur Thomson, Peter J. Bowler. Conclusion: concluding reflections, John
H. Brooke. Index.