Reading the Book of Nature : How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age.: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Topham, Jonathan R
• 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
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 261.55; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 19th century; Religion and science -- England -- History -- 19th century; SCIENCE / General; Books and reading; Religion and science; England; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0226820807; 9780226820804
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