Geoffrey Cantor
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British historian
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Geoffrey Cantor's Degrees
- Masters History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey N. Cantor is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He has written about Michael Faraday, the wave theory of light and the responses of the Quaker and Jewish religions to science. With John Hedley Brooke he delivered the 1995–1996 Gifford Lecture at the University of Glasgow, which were subsequently published as Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion in 1998. He contributed to the SciPer Project, which researches the popularization of science in the periodicals of the 19th century, such as the Boy's Own Paper and Punch, and has lectured upon this subject at the Royal Institution in 2005.
Geoffrey Cantor's Published Works
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Published Works
- Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (2004) (123)
- Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media (2004) (64)
- A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (2012) (62)
- Science serialized : representations of the sciences in nineteenth-century periodicals (2004) (59)
- Conceptions of ether : studies in the history of ether theories, 1740-1900 (1981) (58)
- Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist (1991) (58)
- The Edinburgh phrenology debate: 1803-1828. (1975) (55)
- Quakers, Jews, and Science (2005) (55)
- Reconstructing nature : the engagement of science and religion : Glasgow Gifford lectures (1998) (53)
- Barbour's Fourfold Way: Problems with His Taxonomy of Science‐religion Relationships (2001) (51)
- Companion to The History of Modern Science (2018) (44)
- Telling lives in science: The scientist as hero: public images of Michael Faraday (1996) (44)
- Berkeley's The Analyst Revisited (1984) (35)
- The Reception of the Wave Theory of Light in Britain: A Case Study Illustrating the Role of Methodology in Scientific Debate (1975) (34)
- Optics After Newton: Theories of Light in Britain and Ireland, 1704-1840 (1984) (31)
- Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism (2006) (30)
- Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist: A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century (1991) (26)
- Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives (2010) (26)
- Dictionary of the history of science (1982) (25)
- A critique of Shapin's social interpretation of the Edinburgh phrenology debate. (1975) (24)
- Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851 (2011) (20)
- The Academy of Physics at Edinburgh 1797-1800 (1975) (18)
- PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Charles Singer and the early years of the British Society for the History of Science (1997) (18)
- Reading the Book of Nature: The Relation Between Faraday’s Religion and his Science (1985) (18)
- The Figural and the Literal Problems of Language in the History of Science and Philosophy, 1630-1800 (1987) (17)
- Freud in Cambridge (2018) (17)
- The Changing Role of Young's Ether (1970) (16)
- Thomas Young’s lectures at the Royal Institution (1970) (15)
- Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900 (2005) (14)
- Faraday's search for the gravelectric effect (1991) (13)
- Science and Religion: What shall we do with the ‘Conflict Thesis’? (2010) (12)
- Education and Careers (2005) (12)
- The discourse of light from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment : papers read at a Clark Library seminar, 24 April, 1982 (1985) (10)
- William Robert Grove, the Correlation of Forces, and the Conservation of Energy (1975) (9)
- Science, Providence, and Progress at the Great Exhibition (2012) (8)
- The loneliness of the long-distance (PhD) researcher (2020) (8)
- God as Spirit—and Natural Science (2001) (7)
- Was Thomas Young a wave theorist (1984) (7)
- Quaker Responses to Darwin (2001) (6)
- Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London (2010) (5)
- Boyling over: a commentary on the preceding papers (1999) (4)
- Anglo-Jewish periodicals of the 1840s: The Voice of Jacob and two Jewish Chronicles (2018) (4)
- Fighting the wrong battle (2000) (4)
- The hidden Freud: His Hassidic roots (2016) (4)
- Things Seen and Unseen (2011) (4)
- Quakers, Jews, and science: Religious responses to modernity and the sciences, 1650-1900 (2005) (4)
- Understanding creationism and evolution in America and Europe (2010) (3)
- The making of a British theoretical physicist – E. C. Stoner's early career (1994) (3)
- The Great Exhibition: A Documentary History (2013) (3)
- Why was Faraday excluded from the Sandemanians in 1844? (1989) (3)
- The Historiography of ‘Georgian’ Optics (1978) (3)
- Science and Religion: A global history of science and religion (2010) (3)
- Emotional Reactions to the Great Exhibition of 1851 (2015) (3)
- Representations of science in the nineteenth century periodical press (2003) (3)
- How Successful Were Quakers at Science (2003) (3)
- Newton's telescope (description for teachers) (1977) (2)
- The scientist and his values (1988) (2)
- Essay Review: The Eighteenth Century Problem: The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth Century Science (1982) (2)
- Galileo and the Church: Then and Now (2006) (2)
- Humphry Davy: a study in narcissism? (2018) (2)
- Thompson, Biographer (2021) (2)
- Aesthetics in Science, as Practised by Quakers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999) (1)
- Quakers and Science (2013) (1)
- Michael Faraday Meets the ‘High-Priestess of God’s Works’ A Romance on the Theme of Science and Religion (2017) (1)
- From Chemistry to Electricity (1991) (1)
- The Art of Science (1991) (1)
- Sussex Hall (1845-59) and the revival of learning among London Jewry (2016) (1)
- Charles Rothschild, conservationist (2018) (1)
- Science and Religion: List of contributors (2010) (1)
- Michael Faraday's religion and its relation to his science (1998) (1)
- The Development of Philosophy of Science Since 1900 (2020) (1)
- Creating the Royal Society's Sylvester Medal (2004) (1)
- (Stop) Talking About Victorian Science (2007) (1)
- Jews and Sciences in German Contexts: Case Studies from the 19th and 20th Centuries (2008) (1)
- An Intelligent Approach to Design (2007) (1)
- Method in History: For and against (1976) (1)
- Making spaces: putting psychoanalytic thinking to work (2016) (1)
- Innovations in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. Molecular vortices, displacement current, and light: By Daniel M. Siegel. Pp. 225. Cambridge University Press. 1992. £30.00. US $49.50 ISBN 0 521 35365 3 (1992) (1)
- Epilogue: Science and Religion (1991) (1)
- Understanding and coping with failure: psychoanalytic perspectives (2015) (1)
- Book reviews: Biographies (1995) (0)
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1977) (0)
- Faraday among the Sandemanians (1991) (0)
- Margaret Atherton. Berkeley's Revolution in Vision . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 249. ISBN 0-8014-2358-9. S29.90. (1991) (0)
- Faraday’s Personality Revisited (1991) (0)
- Preparing for the Exhibition (2011) (0)
- Quaker Responses to Evolution (2005) (0)
- STEPHEN FROSH, Hate and the ‘Jewish Science’: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. vi+228. ISBN 1-4039-2170-9. £25.00 (hardback). (2007) (0)
- Of maps and chaps (2014) (0)
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1975) (0)
- Reporting the Great Exhibition (2017) (0)
- On Display: The Building, Its Contents, and English Protestantism (2011) (0)
- Volume 3 (2021) (0)
- Reading Freud’s three essays on the theory of sexuality: from pleasure to the object (2022) (0)
- Peter Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-226-18448-7. $30.00 (hardback). (2016) (0)
- Quakers and Science: An Overview (2003) (0)
- John Tyndall's religion: a fragment (2015) (0)
- Anglicans, Dissenters and Sandemanians (1991) (0)
- From Electricity to Natural Philosophy (1991) (0)
- Essay Review: Eighteenth Century Materialism: Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1985) (0)
- CAN PERSONALITY UNDERPIN ATTITUDES TO BOTH SCIENCE AND RELIGION? (2019) (0)
- Jewish Responses to Evolution (2005) (0)
- Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences, and: Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences (review) (2009) (0)
- Science in Culture (1984) (0)
- Fears and Dangers (2011) (0)
- Bernard Lightman;, Michael S. Reidy (Editors).The Age of Scientific Naturalism: Tyndall and His Contemporaries. (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, 24.) xv + 256 pp., illus., index. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. £60 (cloth). (2015) (0)
- Chris Otter.The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800–1910. x + 382 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $25 (paper). (2009) (0)
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1980) (0)
- General Studies in Perception. Interrelations in the History of Philosophy and Science . Edited by Peter K. Machamer and Robert G. Turnbull. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1978. Pp. x + 568. $30.00. (1980) (0)
- Trajectories in Science (2005) (0)
- Casper Hakfoort, Optics in the Age of Euler: Conceptions of the Nature of Light, 1700–1795 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, Pp. vii + 243. ISBN 0-521-40471-1. £35.00, $64.95. (1996) (0)
- Faraday on Scientific Method (1991) (0)
- Introduction: Science in ‘Dissenting’ Religious Communities (2005) (0)
- Science and Christianity (2012) (0)
- Teaching Philosophy and HPS to Science Students (2001) (0)
- DAVID BOYD HAYCOCK, William Stukeley: Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002. Pp. xiii+290. ISBN 0-85115-864-1. 40.00, $70.00 (hardback). (2004) (0)
- From Bookbinder to Scientist (1991) (0)
- Friends of Science? The Role of Science in Quaker Periodicals (2017) (0)
- The London Sandemanian Fellowship (1991) (0)
- Reviews : Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-century England: A Study of the Relationships between Natural Science, Religion, History, Law, and Literature. By Barbara J. Shapiro. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983. x + 347 pp. £26.00 (1984) (0)
- Catholic, Secular, and Jewish Perceptions (2011) (0)
- Driven to Innovate: A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists ‐ by Ioan James (2010) (0)
- David Charles Gooding (21 November 1947–13 December 2009) (2010) (0)
- Library of Science Vols 1–10 (+index) (1983) (0)
- The British Society for the History of Science (1967) (0)
- Index for Volume 36 (2001) (0)
- In Love with Light: Out of the Shadows. Herschel, Talbot and the Invention of Photography (1993) (0)
- David Charles Gooding (2010) (0)
- The Exhibition: Close and Retrospect (2011) (0)
- Barri J. Gold.ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science. 343 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. $30 (cloth). (2011) (0)
- Science and Religion (2011) (0)
- Science and Religion: Select bibliography (2010) (0)
- Books received (2005) (0)
- Frank A. J. L. James (Editor).The Correspondence of Michael Faraday.Volume 5:November 1855–October 1860, Letters 3033–3873. lviii + 835 pp., illus., bibl., index. London: Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2008. $142 (cloth). (2010) (0)
- Jewish Attitudes and Practices (2005) (0)
- Book Review:The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, Donald N. McCloskey (1988) (0)
- Faraday in Society (1991) (0)
- Maxwell: the scientist and his craft (1991) (0)
- Hidden Attraction: The History and Mystery of Magnetism. Gerrit L. Verschuur (1994) (0)
- Faraday in the World (1991) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (1970) (0)
- Book Review:Brewster and Wheatstone on Vision Nicholas J. Wade (1985) (0)
- Book reviews: In love with light (1993) (0)
- Historical Comparisons and Historiographical Reflections (2005) (0)
- Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences, by Bernard LightmanScience in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences, edited by Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman (2008) (0)
- Faraday’s Influence (1991) (0)
- Newton on optics: the optical papers of isaac newton. (1984) (0)
- A Theology of Nature (1991) (0)
- 1-1-2003 Quakers and Science : An Overview (2014) (0)
- ‘From nature to nature’s God’: Ellis A. Davidson—mid-Victorian educator, moralist, and consummate Designer (2009) (0)
- Jaume Navarro (ed.), Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Epistemic Object in the Early Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-1987-9725-8. £65.00 (hardcover). (2019) (0)
- Daniel Pick, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 357. ISBN 978-0-19-967851-8. £10.99 (paperback). (2015) (0)
- Discourse and discord (2001) (0)
- Jeff Hardin, Ronald L. Numbers and Ronald A. Binzley (eds.), The Warfare between Science and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't Die. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 355. ISBN 978-1-4214-2618-1. $39.95 (paperback). (2019) (0)
- Quaker Attitudes and Practices (2005) (0)
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