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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
ISBN10: 0199276684, ISBN13: 9780199276684, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover First Edition FIRST EDITION 1ST IMPRESSIOIN - FINE EXAMPLE IN A LIKE COMPLETE DUST JACKET: with the all important figure '1' within the full printing string from figure '10' downwards. xi, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [366]-397) and index. CONTENTS : Introduction: science in dissenting religious communities -- Two communities -- Education and careers -- Scientific institutions -- Trajectories in science -- Quaker attitudes and practices -- Quaker responses to evolution -- Jewish attitudes and practices -- Jewish responses to evolution -- Historical comparisons and historiographical reflections. SUMMARY : How do science and religion interact? This study examines the ways in which two minorities in Britain - the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities - engaged with science. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material, much of which has not been analysed by previous historians, Geoffrey Cantor charts the participation of Quakers and Jews in many different aspects of science: scientific research, science education, science-related careers, and scientific institutions. The responses of both communities to the challenge of modernity posed by innovative scientific theories, such as the Newtonian worldvie. [Cadole, FLINT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0199276684, ISBN13: 9780199276684, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover CANTOR (G.). Quakers, Jews, and Science. Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900.Oxford, 2005, gr. in-8°, cart. pl. toile édit. ss. jaq. ill. 900 gr [Paris, France] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0199276684, ISBN13: 9780199276684, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover CANTOR (G.). Quakers, Jews, and Science. Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900.Oxford, 2005, gr. in-8°, cart. pl. toile édit. ss. jaq. ill. 900 gr [Paris, France] [Publication Year: 2005]
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