Quakers Jews And Science

Author : Geoffrey Cantor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191534897
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quakers, Jews, and Science written by Geoffrey Cantor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 worldview and Darwin's theory of evolution, are of central interest.

Author : Geoffrey Cantor
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199276684
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quakers, Jews, and Science written by Geoffrey Cantor and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study examines how two minorities - the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities - engaged with the sciences. With their roots in the mid-seventeenth century, both communities maintained their religious and social norms throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while standing outside the hegemony of the Anglican Church and being subject to various forms of discrimination. Yet for both Quakers and Jews science offered educational and career opportunities and participation in the wider society. They adopted their own scientific interests, with Quakers being attracted principally to the observational sciences. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material, much of which has not been analysed by previous historians, Geoffrey Cantor charts the involvement of Quakers and Jews in many different aspects of science: scientific research, science education, science-related careers, and scientific institutions ranging from the Royal Society to the Great Exhibition."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : G. N. Cantor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Quakers, Jews, and Science written by G. N. Cantor and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David B. Ruderman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300061123
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe written by David B. Ruderman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dotyczy m. in. Polski.

Author : Ellen M. Umansky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435618633
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Christian Science to Jewish Science written by Ellen M. Umansky and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining an important & previously unwritten chapter in the story of American Judaism, this book sheds light on religious & social concerns of 20th century American Jewry, including ways in which adherence to Jewish Science helped thousands to bridge the perceived gap between Judaism & modernity.

Author : Geoffrey Cantor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226093018
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism written by Geoffrey Cantor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwin’s theory of evolution transformed the life sciences and made profound claims about human origins and the human condition, topics often viewed as the prerogative of religion. As a result, evolution has provoked a wide variety of religious responses, ranging from angry rejection to enthusiastic acceptance. While Christian responses to evolution have been studied extensively, little scholarly attention has been paid to Jewish reactions. Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism is the first extended meditation on the Jewish engagement with this crucial and controversial theory. The contributors to Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism—from several academic disciplines and two branches of the rabbinate—present case studies showing how Jewish discussions of evolution have been shaped by the intersections of faith, science, philosophy, and ideology in specific historical contexts. Furthermore, they examine how evolutionary theory has been deployed when characterizing Jews as a race, both by Zionists and by anti-Semites. Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism addresses historical and contemporary, as well as progressive and Orthodox, responses to evolution in America, Europe, and Israel, ultimately extending the history of Darwinism into new religious domains.

Author : Matthew Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Mystic written by Matthew Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and religion have long been thought incompatible. But nowhere has this apparent contradiction been more fully resolved than in the figure of A. S. Eddington (1882-1944), a pioneer in astrophysics, relativity, and the popularization of science, and a devout Quaker. Practical Mystic uses the figure of Eddington to shows how religious and scientific values can interact and overlap without compromising the integrity of either. Eddington was a world-class scientist who not only maintained his religious belief throughout his scientific career but also defended the interrelation of science and religion while drawing inspiration from both for his practices. For instance, at a time when a strict adherence to deductive principles of physics had proved fruitless for understanding the nature of stars, insights from Quaker mysticism led Eddington to argue that an outlook less concerned with certainty and more concerned with further exploration was necessary to overcome the obstacles of incomplete and uncertain knowledge. By examining this intersection between liberal religion and astrophysics, Practical Mystic questions many common assumptions about the relationship between science and spirituality. Matthew Stanley's analysis of Eddington's personal convictions also reveals much about the practice, production, and dissemination of scientific knowledge at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1006 pages
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Download or read book Nuncius written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book Annual Bibliography of Victorian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists editions, books, articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1945 to 1999 on every field of nineteenth-century British studies

Author : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521219297
Total Pages : 766 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age written by William David Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.