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Quakers, Jews, and science : religious responses to modernity and the sciences in Britain, 1650-1900

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, Geoffrey Cantor charts the participation of Quakers and Jews in many different aspects of science

eBook, English, 2005
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005