Geoffrey Cantor

The Great Exhibition: A Documentary History

The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art from around the world. The sources in this edition provide a depth of context for study into the Exhibition.

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, much of which has not been analysed by previous historians, Geoffrey Cantor charts the ...

Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851

The Great Exhibition of 1851 is routinely portrayed as a manifestly secular event which was confined to celebrating the success of science, technology, and manufacturing in the mid-Victorian age. Geoffrey Cantor presents an innovative reappraisal of the Exhibition, demonstrating that it was widely u...

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians' understanding of the new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine of their era. This book identifies and analyzes the presentation of science in the periodical press in Britain between 1...

Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Nineteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of periodical literature, with the publication of over 100,000 different magazines and newspapers for a growing market of eager readers. The Victorian periodical press became an important medium for the dissemination of scientific ideas. Every major scient...

Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist: A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century

'Deserves to be as popular with non-specialists as with those who have a science background...I can think of sixth-formers I would offer it to, and I know of an eighty-year-old (non-specialist) who would not let me finish my copy in peace' - Elspeth Crawford, Physics Education 'Cantor...achieves a l...

Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives

The idea of an inevitable conflict between science and religion was decisively challenged by John Hedley Brooke in his classic Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1991). Almost two decades on, Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives revisits this argument and ask...

Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (Glasgow Gifford Lectures)

This book, first published in the U.K. by T&T Clark, expands on the authors' prestigious Glasgow Gifford Lectures of 1995-6. Brooke and Cantor herein examine the many different ways in which the relationship between science and religion has been presented throughout history. They contend that, in fa...

Geoffrey Cantor

Geoffrey N. Cantor (born 1943) is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Leeds. He has written extensively on the history of ...

The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists

Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion

Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media

Quakers, Jews, And Science: Religious Responses to Modernity And the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900

Jewish Tradition And the Challenge of Darwinism

Jewish Tradition And the Challenge of Darwinism

Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical : Reading the Magazine of Nature