Science and dissent in England, 1688-1945

Contents: Introduction: Stepping out of Merton's shadow, Paul Wood; Science and dissent: some historiographical issues, John Hedley Brooke; To discourse of God: Isaac Newton's heterodox theology and his natural philosophy, Stephen D. Snobelen; Science, technology and dissent in English provincial culture: from Newtonian transformation to agnostic incarnation, John Money; The public culture of radical philosophers in 18th-century London, Larry Stewart; Natural philosophers in a coffee house: dissent, radical reform and pneumatic chemistry, Trevor H. Levere; Real disabilities?: Quaker schools as 'nurseries' of science, Geoffrey Cantor; Condescending harmony: John Pye Smith's mosaic geology, Richard Helmstadter; Interpreting agnosticism as a nonconformist sect: T.H. Huxley's 'New Reformation', Bernard Lightman; 'If gold ruste what shall iren do?': Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Quakerism and science, Hannah Gay; Creed and experience: Eddington on science and religion, Alan H. Batten; Index.