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    Natural theology and the plurality of worlds: Observations on the Brewster-Whewell debate.John Hedley Brooke - 1977 - Annals of Science 34 (3):221-286.
    Summary The object of this study is to analyse certain aspects of the debate between David Brewster and William Whewell concerning the probability of extra-terrestrial life, in order to illustrate the nature, constitution and condition of natural theology in the decades immediately preceding the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's Origin of species. The argument is directed against a stylised picture of natural theology which has been drawn from a backward projection of the Darwinian antithesis between natural selection and certain (...)
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    Revisiting William Paley.John Hedley Brooke - 2022 - Zygon 57 (1):141-160.
    Zygon®, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 141-160, March 2022.
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  3. Laws impressed on matter by the Creator'? : the Origin and the question of religion.John Hedley Brooke - 2009 - In Michael Ruse & Robert J. Richards (eds.), The Cambridge companion to the "Origin of species". New York: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Richard Owen, William Whewell, and the Vestiges.John Hedley Brooke - 1977 - British Journal for the History of Science 10 (2):132-145.
    In The life of Richard Owen by his grandson there is an inference to the effect that Owen had objected to his name being used to authorize various statements that Whewell was drafting in opposition to the Vestiges. The inference is drawn from letters that Whewell wrote to Owen on 13 and 15 February 1845. Corroboration of this would corne from a letter of Owen to Whewell, dated 14 February 1845, if extant. Among the Whewell papers at Trinity College, Cambridge, (...)
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  5. Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain.Peter J. Bowler, John Hedley Brooke & Margaret J. Osler - 2002 - Journal of the History of Biology 35 (2):416-418.
     
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    Darwin and Religion: Correcting the Caricatures.John Hedley Brooke - 2010 - Science & Education 19 (4-5):391-405.
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    Organic Synthesis and the Unification of Chemistry—A Reappraisal.John Hedley Brooke - 1971 - British Journal for the History of Science 5 (4):363-392.
    Proclaiming Louis Pasteur as the “Founder of Stereochemistry”, the distinguished Scottish chemist, Crum Brown, addressing a late nineteenth-century audience of Edinburgh savants, drew attention—as Pasteur had incessantly done—to the intimate relationship between living organisms and the optical activity of compounds sustaining them. It seemed to Crum Brown “that we must go very much further down in the scale of animate existence than Buridan's ass, before we come to a being incapable of giving practical expression to a distinct preference for one (...)
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  8. 8 Darwin and Victorian Christianity.John Hedley Brooke - 2003 - In Jonathan Hodge & Gregory Radick (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. Cambridge University Press.
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    Chlorine substitution and the future of organic chemistry. Methodological issues in the Laurent-Berzelius correspondence.John Hedley Brooke - 1973 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 4 (1):47.
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    Avogadro's Hypothesis and its Fate: A Case-Study in the Failure of Case-Studies.John Hedley Brooke - 1981 - History of Science 19 (4):235-273.
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    The Scientist as God: A Typological Study of a Literary Motif, 1818 to the Present by Sven Wagner.John Hedley Brooke - 2013 - Zygon 48 (1):236-238.
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    Reconciling religious tradition and modern science.John Hedley Brooke - 2012 - Zygon 47 (2):322-336.
    Abstract The primary purpose of this essay is to review Nidhal Guessoum's Islam's Quantum Question from a perspective outside Muslim tradition. Having outlined the main contours and contentions of the book, general issues are raised concerning the reconciliation of religious belief with the sciences. Comparisons are drawn between the resources available to Christian and Muslim cultures for achieving reconciliation, with particular reference to scriptural exegesis and natural theology. Speculative questions are then raised concerning possible differences between the Christian and Islamic (...)
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    Darwin and christianity: Truth and myth.John Hedley Brooke - 2018 - Zygon 53 (3):836-849.
    In recent years many historical myths about the relations between science and religion have been corrected but not always with sensitivity to different types and functions of “myth.” Correcting caricatures of Darwin's religious views and of the religious reaction to his theory have featured prominently in this myth‐busting. With the appearance in 2017 of A. N. Wilson's depiction of Darwin himself as a “mythmaker,” it is appropriate to reconsider where the myths lie in discourse concerning Darwin and Christianity. Problems with (...)
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    The Ambivalence of Scientific Naturalism: A Response to Mark Harris.John Hedley Brooke - 2018 - Zygon 53 (4):1051-1056.
    Responding to Mark Harris, I reflect on his tantalizing question whether the provision of naturalistic explanations for biblical miracles renders the narratives more, or less, credible. I address his “reversal,” in which professional scientists now feature among defenders of a literalistic reading, while professional biblical scholars are often skeptical. I suggest this underlines the ambivalence of scientific naturalism from the standpoint of Christian theology. Historical examples are adduced to show that, until the mid‐nineteenth century, naturalistic and theistic explanations were commonly (...)
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  15. Indications of a Creator: Whewell as Apologist and Priest.John Hedley Brooke - 1991 - In Menachem Fisch & Simon Schaffer (eds.), William Whewell: A Composite Portrait. New York: Clarendon Press.
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    Science and the fortunes of natural theology: Some historical perspectives.John Hedley Brooke - 1989 - Zygon 24 (1):3-22.
    . The object is to examine strategies commonly used to heighten a sense of the sacred in nature. It is argued that moves designed to reinforce a concept of Providence have been the very ones to release new opportunities for secular readings. Several case studies reveal this fluidity across a sacred‐secular divide. The irony whereby sacred readings of nature would graduate into the secular is also shown to operate in reverse as anti‐providentialist strategies invited their own refutation. The analysis is (...)
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  17. Contributions from the History of Science and Religion.John Hedley Brooke - 2006 - In Philip Clayton & Zachory Simpson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science. Oxford University Press. pp. 293-310.
    Accession Number: ATLA0001712198; Hosting Book Page Citation: p 293-310.; Language(s): English; General Note: Bibliography: p 307-310.; Issued by ATLA: 20130825; Publication Type: Essay.
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    Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion.John Hedley Brooke & Ian Maclean (eds.) - 2005 - Oxford University Press.
    The separation of science and religion in modern secular culture can easily obscure the fact that in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe ideas about nature were intimately related to ideas about God. Readers of this book will find fresh and exciting accounts of a phenomenon common to both science and religion: deviation from orthodox belief. How is heterodoxy to be measured? How might the scientific heterodoxy of particular thinkers impinge on their religious views? Would heterodoxy in religion create a predisposition towards (...)
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    (1 other version)“If I were god”: Einstein and religion.John Hedley Brooke - 2006 - Zygon 41 (4):941-954.
  20. Visions of Perfectibility.”.John Hedley Brooke - 2005 - Journal of Evolution and Technology 14 (2):1-12.
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  21. ch. 11. Evolution and religion.John Hedley Brooke - 2014 - In W. J. Mander (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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    Historical Perspectives on Religion and Science.John Hedley Brooke - 1997 - In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 527–538.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Diversity Complexity Respectability Critiques Darwinism Conclusion Works cited.
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  23. Interpreting the word and the world.John Hedley Brooke - 2011 - Zygon 46 (2):281-290.
    Abstract. The purpose of this essay is to introduce a collection of five papers, originally presented at the 2009 summer conference of the International Society for Science and Religion, which explore the reception of Darwin's science in different religious traditions. Comparisons are drawn between Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Indian responses to biological evolution, with particular reference to the problem of suffering and to the exegetical and hermeneutic issues involved.
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    (1 other version)Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin. London: Michael Joseph, 1991. Pp. xxi + 808. ISBN 0-7181-3430-3. £20.00.John Hedley Brooke - 1993 - British Journal for the History of Science 26 (1):102-103.
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    Alister E. McGrath: Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology.John Hedley Brooke - 2013 - Science & Education 22 (2):399-404.
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    Between Science and Theology: The Defence of Teleology in the Interpretation of Nature, 1820—1876.John Hedley Brooke - 1994 - Journal for the History of Modern Theology/Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 1 (1):47-65.
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  27. Chemistry with and without God.John Hedley Brooke - 2019 - In Peter Harrison & Jon H. Roberts (eds.), Science Without God?: Rethinking the History of Scientific Naturalism. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Evolution and Religion.John Hedley Brooke - 2014 - In W. J. Mander (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    This essay examines the impact of evolutionary theory on religious thinking in Victorian Britain. Four cultural shifts are identified that were associated with Darwin’s scientific achievement and its implications. One was the deepening of divisions concerning how scientific knowledge and religious beliefs were best related. Another was a difficult adjustment to the continuity between animals and humans that Darwin’s theory of “descent with modification” enshrined. A third was the eventual elimination from technical scientific literature of references to a Creator, and (...)
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  29. Genes, Genesis and God: Values and their Origins in Natural and Human History.John Hedley Brooke - 2000 - Environmental Values 9:401.
     
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    Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science.John Hedley Brooke & Ian Maclean (eds.) - 2005 - Oxford University Press UK.
    The separation of science and religion in modern secular culture can easily obscure the fact that in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe ideas about nature were intimately related to ideas about God. Readers of this book will find fresh and exciting accounts of a phenomenon common to both science and religion: deviation from orthodox belief. How is heterodoxy to be measured? How might the scientific heterodoxy of particular thinkers impinge on their religious views? Would heterodoxy in religion create a predisposition towards (...)
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  31. Historical Perspective on Religion and Science.John Hedley Brooke - 1997 - In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
     
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    Modernity at the Margins.John Hedley Brooke - 2006 - Minerva 44 (4):463-467.
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    Presidential address does the history of science have a future?John Hedley Brooke - 1999 - British Journal for the History of Science 32 (1):1-20.
    It has been a singular privilege to preside over the BSHS as it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. As we share our festivities with the British Association annual meeting at Leeds, I am doubly honoured to be giving this address. A fiftieth anniversary is a sentimental occasion. It is a moment when we can express our gratitude to our many friends and forebears who by their dedication have enabled the Society to grow and flourish. That so many of those friends should (...)
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    Science, Eastern Orthodoxy, and World Religions.John Hedley Brooke & Ronald L. Numbers - 2016 - Isis 107 (3):592-596.
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    Sctentific thought and its meaning for religion : The impact of French science on British Natural Theology, 1827–1859.John Hedley Brooke - 1989 - Revue de Synthèse 110 (1):33-59.
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    Thinking about matter: studies in the history of chemical philosophy.John Hedley Brooke - 1995 - Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum.
    In these articles Professor Brooke has aimed to expose and explore the many layers of philosophical debate that accompanied the development of chemistry in the 100 years from Priestley to Kekulé. During this period the foundations of our modern science were laid: Lavosier's 'chemical revolution', Dalton's atomic theory, the electrochemical concepts of Berzelius transformed the science, as did new ideas of valency and molecular structure. But it was also a period of intense controversy when chemists called each other brigands and (...)
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    (1 other version)Michael Ruse . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. xvii + 568 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. $178.95. [REVIEW]John Hedley Brooke - 2014 - Isis 105 (1):205-207.
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    Matthew Stanley, Practical Mystic: Religion, Science and A. S. Eddington. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x+313. ISBN 978-0-226-77097-0. $37.50, £22.00. [REVIEW]John Hedley Brooke - 2009 - British Journal for the History of Science 42 (1):125.
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    Reviews. [REVIEW]John Hedley Brooke - 1969 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 20 (2):183-184.
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    Reviews. [REVIEW]John Hedley Brooke - 1987 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38 (3):183-184.
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    Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev and Peter C. Kjærgaard , Creationism in Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 276. ISBN 978-1-4214-1562-8. £26.00. [REVIEW]John Hedley Brooke - 2016 - British Journal for the History of Science 49 (1):131-132.
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