S4 Episode 11: The complex relationship between science and religion in the 19th century
In the 11th episode of Season 4, we are excited to be featuring Professor Bernard Lightman, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at York University, in Toronto, Canada, who is best known for his work on the Cultural History of Victorian Science and Religion. In this episode he talks to our host Deborah Cohen about some of […]
Tyndall, Draper, and “Eastern” Religions
By Bernard Lightman When John Tyndall, well known physicist and superintendent of the prestigious Royal Institution, delivered his “Belfast Address” in 1874 as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science he touched off a storm of controversy that lasted for several years. The lecture was a tour de force, covering the entire […]
“The most pestilential book ever vomited from the jaws of hell”
By Sylvia Nickerson Radicalism and science at the publisher John Chapman In the latter nineteenth century several British doctors, philosophers and naturalists embraced scientific principles as the ones upon which society should best form itself for the future. The theory of evolution, the atomic theory of matter and the theory of the conservation of energy […]
