Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850 - Couverture souple

Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674344812 ISBN 13 : 9780674344815

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1996

Synopsis

First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches that, between them, produced the religious difficulties that afflicted the development of science in early industrial England. The book makes clear that the furor over On the Origin of Species was nothing new: earlier discoveries in science, particularly geology, had presented major challenges, not only to the literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis, but even more seriously to the traditional idea that Providence controls the order of nature with an eye to fulfilling divine purpose.

A new Foreword by Nicolaas Rupke places this book in the context of the last forty-five years of scholarship in the social history of evolutionary thought. Everyone interested in the history of modern science, in ideas, and in nineteenth-century England will want to read this book.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Charles Coulston Gillispie was Dayton Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University.

Nicolaas A. Rupke is Professor and Director, Institute for the History of Science, Göttingen University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674344812
• ISBN 13: 9780674344815
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 351
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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