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DAVIS, EDWARD B. (TED)

HISTORY, HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Edward B. (“Ted”) Davis is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Messiah University and a Fellow of the International Society for Science & Religion.

With Michael Hunter, Davis edited The Works of Robert Boyle, 14 vols. (Pickering & Chatto, 1999-2000), and Boyle’s Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1996). His edition of The Antievolution Pamphlets of Harry Rimmer was reissued with new introductory material (Routledge, 2021). His newest book, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in the Scopes Era (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), reprints ten rare pamphlets on “Science and Religion” by leading scientists and religious leaders from the period surrounding the Scopes trial and analyzes the Protestant modernist encounter with science between the world wars.

An advisor for exhibits at the National Museum of American History and the Museum of the Bible, Ted has also published dozens of articles and essays about religion and science in early modern Europe and modern America, including a study of modern Jonah stories featured on two BBC radio programs.