Reconstructing nature : the engagement of science and religion /
John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor.
- xii, 367 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
- Glasgow Gifford lectures .
- Glasgow Gifford lectures. .
Originally published: Edinburgh : T&T Clark Ltd., 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Is there value in the historical approach? -- Whose science? Whose religion? -- Against the self-images of the New Age -- The contemporary relevance of the Galileo affair -- Natural theology and the history of science -- The language of natural theology -- From aesthetics to theology -- Biographical narratives -- 'A taste for philosophical pursuits'--Quakers in the Royal Society of London -- Improving on nature?
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Religion and science--History. Religion and science.