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Huxley's church and Maxwell's demon : from theistic science to naturalistic science / Matthew Stanley.
LIBRA Q127.G4 S73 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stanley, Matthew, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Science.
- Religion and science.
- History.
- Naturalism.
- Naturalists.
- Physicists.
- Great Britain.
- Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879.
- Maxwell, James Clerk.
- Physicists--Great Britain.
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895.
- Huxley, Thomas Henry.
- Naturalists--Great Britain.
- Naturalism--History--19th century.
- Religion and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 364 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Religious lives
- The uniformity of natural laws
- The limits of science
- The goals of science education : the Working Men's College
- Intellectual freedom
- Free will and natural laws
- How the naturalists "won"
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Available in 2014.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-359) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226164878
- 022616487X
- OCLC:
- 881386844
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