Science and Religion in the 19th Century by Cosslett

Science and Religion in the 19th Century by Cosslett

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Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to substantial selections from non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The series provides students with the opportunity of reading significant prose writers who, for a variety of reasons are rarely studied, but whose influence on their times was very considerable.

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Science and Religion in the 19th Century by Cosslett

Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to substantial selections from non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The series provides students, primarily though not exclusively those of English literature, with the opportunity of reading significant prose writers who, for a variety of reasons (not least their generally being unavailable in suitable editions) are rarely studied, but whose influence on their times was very considerable. This volume contains selections from nineteenth-century writers involved in the debate about the relation of science and religion. It centres on the Darwinian controversy, with extracts from The Origin Of Species and The Descent of Man, and from opponents and supporters of Darwin. This controversy is placed in the wider context of the earlier debates on geology and evolution; the relation of science to Natural Theology; the effect of Biblical Criticism on the interpretation of Genesis; and the professionalisation of science by aggressively agnostic scientists.
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ISBN 13 9780521286688
ISBN 10 0521286689
Title Science and Religion in the 19th Century
Author Cosslett
Series Cambridge English Prose Texts
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1984-01-19
Number of pages 256
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