Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age (Book review)
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When the eighth and last Earl of Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, died in February 1829 he bequeathed £8000 to the president of the Royal Society of London for the purpose of commissioning a “person or persons” to produce a work on the “Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.” The Earl’s generous gift was put to good use, sponsoring the publication of a series of works, which became known as the Bridgewater Treatises. Between 1833 and 1836, eight treatises appeared on scientific subjects ranging from astronomy and geology to anatomy and chemistry, written by some of Britain’s leading men of science, including: Charles Bell, William Buckland, Thomas Chalmers, John Kidd, William Kirby, William Prout, Peter Mark Roget, and William Whewell.
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History: Reviews of New Books
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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in History: Reviews of New Books. Meiring, H. J. (2023). Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age: Topham, Jonathan R. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 544 pp., $47.50, ISBN 978-0-22681-576-3. Publication Date: October 2022. History: Reviews of New Books, 51(5), 113–114. https://doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2023.2237257. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Meiring, H-J, Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age, History: Reviews of New Books, 2023, 51 (5), pp. 113-114