About the Author

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.

Reviews

Here…is a book to be read by all who wish to appreciate the scientific and social background of the half-century or so preceding the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
*Nature*

A lively account of the impact of scientific discoveries in geology upon religious beliefs in the decades before Darwin, [this book] will help to illuminate the one general problem of what happens when scientific ideas come into headlong conflict with ideas cherished by society.
*Saturday Review*

A learned and scholarly but at the same time readable and even witty account of a fascinating chapter in the history of British scientific thought and natural theology.
*Times Literary Supplement*