John Hedley Brooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 989491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Hedley Brooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Hedley |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooke |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKE J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3678-6610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Darwin Mythology
That Huxley Defeated Wilberforce, and Ridiculed His Obscurantism, in the 1860 Oxford Debate
The story of Thomas Huxley’s humiliation of bishop Samuel Wilberforce during their altercation in Oxford is the stuff of legend. To the Bishop of Oxford’s provocative enquiry whether Huxley would prefer to have an ape for an ancestor on his grandmother’s or grandfather’s side, Huxley famously retaliated that that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop who pronounced on matters of which he was ignorant. A victory for Huxley and …
Science, Eastern Orthodoxy, and World Religions
The history of Orthodoxy and science invites contrasts with other religious traditions. In contradistinction to the Latin West, for example, Eastern Orthodoxy throughout its history embraced the “pagan” scientific achievements of ancient Greece. Also unlike in the West, where ecclesiastical institutions often supported scientific activities, scholars in the East—in both the Byzantine and Ottoman periods— relied primarily on temporal sources to su…
The Oxford Handbook Of Natural Theology
Frequently misunderstood or polemicised, natural theology is an under-studied yet persistent and pervasive presence throughout the history of thought about ultimate reality - from the classical Greek theology of the philosophers to 21st century debates in science and religion.
God, Humanity and the Cosmos - 3rd edition
This work is a fully updated new edition of this best-selling textbook in science and religion. This fully revised and updated edition of "God, Humanity and the Cosmos" includes new chapters by John Hedley Brooke, Paul D. Murray and David Wilkinson. In addition to a systematic exploration of contemporary perspectives in physics, evolutionary biology and psychology as they relate to theological descriptions of the universe, humanity and consciousn…
Modernity at the Margins
Heterodoxy in early modern science and religion
"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 imping…
Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England
Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England: Richard Cumberland's De legibus naturae, Jon Parkin Get access John Hedley Brooke John Hedley Brooke Harris Manchester College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 465, February 2001, Pages 219–220, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.465.219 Published: 01 February 2001
Religious Belief and the Content of the Sciences
Stages of Thought
‘Wise men nowadays think otherwise’
The object of this paper is to re–examine the extent to which anthropocentric readings of nature were dislodged as a consequence of developments in 17th–century natural philosophy. The natural theology in Ray's Wisdom of God (1691) provides access to the issues because Ray was explicitly critical of those who imagined that everything had been made for man alone. The paper begins by identifying familiar features of the ‘scientific revolution’ that…
Presidential Address Does the History of Science Have a Future
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…
Introduction ‘Small beginnings in a disturbed world’
As the British Society for the History of Science's president during its fiftieth year, it gives me the greatest pleasure to introduce this anniversary issue of the Journal. For some readers there will be a special poignancy in recalling the vision and energy of the Society's founding fathers who, believing that the history of science had a strategic role to play both as a humanizing force and as an integral part of the culture of science, turned…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN HEDLEY BROOKE JOHN HEDLEY BROOKE University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 752–753, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.752 Published: 01 June 1996
The Quiet Revolution
The Fontana History of Chemistry . William H. Brock
Scientific Thought and its Meaning for Religion
De quelle maniere les savants anglais ont accueilli, assimile, transforme les theories francaises au plan de la theologie naturelle. William Buckland et Georges Cuvier| Charles Lyell et Lamarck| William Whewell et Laplace| Richard Owen et Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method
Jacob Berzelius
Avogadro's Hypothesis and its Fate
Berzelius och den kemiska atomteorin . Anders Lundgren
Nebular Contraction and the Expansion of Naturalism
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Richard Owen, William Whewell, and the Vestiges
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 Coll…
King George III
Chlorine substitution and the future of organic chemistry
Chlorine substitution and the future of organic chemistry
Organic Synthesis and the Unification of Chemistry—A Reappraisal
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 as…
Richard Owen, William Whewell, and the Vestiges
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 Coll…
Namier and Namierism
The great historian, wrote Sir Lewis Namier in his essay on History, like great artist or doctor: after he has done his work, others should not be able practise within its sphere in terms of preceding era. No one who works within Namier's chosen sphere British parliamentary history in eighteenth century can do so in terms of pre-Namier era; and such has been his authority that for some time come historians of that period will be differentiated fr…
Presidential Address Does the History of Science Have a Future
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…
Scientific Thought and its Meaning for Religion
De quelle maniere les savants anglais ont accueilli, assimile, transforme les theories francaises au plan de la theologie naturelle. William Buckland et Georges Cuvier| Charles Lyell et Lamarck| William Whewell et Laplace| Richard Owen et Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Avogadro's Hypothesis and its Fate
Nebular Contraction and the Expansion of Naturalism
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Religious Belief and the Content of the Sciences
The Chatham Administration, 1766-1768
The Chatham Administration, 1766-1768
Burke in the 1760's
Research Article| October 01 1959 Burke in the 1760’s John Brooke John Brooke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1959) 58 (4): 548–555. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-58-4-548 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Brooke; Burke in the 1760’s. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1959; 58 (4): 548–555. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/003…
Namier and Namierism
The great historian, wrote Sir Lewis Namier in his essay on History, like great artist or doctor: after he has done his work, others should not be able practise within its sphere in terms of preceding era. No one who works within Namier's chosen sphere British parliamentary history in eighteenth century can do so in terms of pre-Namier era; and such has been his authority that for some time come historians of that period will be differentiated fr…
Charles Townshend
Organic Synthesis and the Unification of Chemistry—A Reappraisal
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 as…
Chlorine substitution and the future of organic chemistry
King George III
Journal Article King George III. By John Brooke. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. xix + 411 pp. Illustrations, chart, notes, sources, and index. $12.50.) Get access Richard Middleton Richard Middleton Institute of Early American History and Culture Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 2, September 1973, Pages 428–429, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936794 Published: 01 Septe…
King George III
King George III
Richard Owen, William Whewell, and the Vestiges
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 Coll…
Nebular Contraction and the Expansion of Naturalism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Berzelius och den kemiska atomteorin . Anders Lundgren
Avogadro's Hypothesis and its Fate
Jacob Berzelius
The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method
Scientific Thought and its Meaning for Religion
De quelle maniere les savants anglais ont accueilli, assimile, transforme les theories francaises au plan de la theologie naturelle. William Buckland et Georges Cuvier| Charles Lyell et Lamarck| William Whewell et Laplace| Richard Owen et Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
The Quiet Revolution
The Fontana History of Chemistry . William H. Brock
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN HEDLEY BROOKE JOHN HEDLEY BROOKE University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 752–753, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.752 Published: 01 June 1996
Introduction ‘Small beginnings in a disturbed world’
As the British Society for the History of Science's president during its fiftieth year, it gives me the greatest pleasure to introduce this anniversary issue of the Journal. For some readers there will be a special poignancy in recalling the vision and energy of the Society's founding fathers who, believing that the history of science had a strategic role to play both as a humanizing force and as an integral part of the culture of science, turned…
Presidential Address Does the History of Science Have a Future
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…
‘Wise men nowadays think otherwise’
The object of this paper is to re–examine the extent to which anthropocentric readings of nature were dislodged as a consequence of developments in 17th–century natural philosophy. The natural theology in Ray's Wisdom of God (1691) provides access to the issues because Ray was explicitly critical of those who imagined that everything had been made for man alone. The paper begins by identifying familiar features of the ‘scientific revolution’ that…
Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England
Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England: Richard Cumberland's De legibus naturae, Jon Parkin Get access John Hedley Brooke John Hedley Brooke Harris Manchester College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 465, February 2001, Pages 219–220, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.465.219 Published: 01 February 2001
Religious Belief and the Content of the Sciences
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