Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain - Hardcover

Charles Coulston Gillispie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674344804 ISBN 13: 9780674344808

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1951

Synopsis

First published in 1951, Genesis and Geology describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches which, between them, produced the religious difficulties that afflicted the development of science in early industrial England. The book makes clear that the furor over On the Origin of Species was nothing new: earlier discoveries in science (particularly geology) had presented major challenges, not only to the literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis, but even more seriously to the traditional idea that Providence controls the order of nature with an eye to fulfilling divine purpose. A new Foreword by Nicolaas A. Rupke places this book in the context of the last forty-five years of scholarship in the social history of evolutionary thought.

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About the Authors

Charles Coulston Gillispie was Dayton Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University.

Nicolaas A. Rupke is Professor and Director, Institute for the History of Science, Göttingen University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1951
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674344804
• ISBN 13: 9780674344808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 351