John Hedley Brooke
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British historian of science
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Hedley Brooke is a British historian of science specialising in the relationship between science and religion. Biography Born on 20 May 1944, Brooke is the son of Hedley Joseph Brooke, and Margaret Brooke, née Brown. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Retford, then Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. On 30 August 1972, he married Janice Marian Heffer.
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- Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (1994) (386)
- Natural theology and the plurality of worlds: Observations on the Brewster-Whewell debate (1977) (78)
- Reconstructing nature : the engagement of science and religion : Glasgow Gifford lectures (1998) (53)
- Namier and Namierism (1964) (37)
- Wöhler's Urea, and its Vital Force ?—A Verdict from the Chemists (1968) (36)
- Social Role Valorization and the English Experience (2002) (32)
- Nebular Contraction and the Expansion of Naturalism (1979) (28)
- Organic Synthesis and the Unification of Chemistry—A Reappraisal (1971) (26)
- The dictionary of nineteenth-century British scientists (2004) (25)
- Methods and Methodology in the Development of Organic Chemistry (1987) (25)
- Avogadro's Hypothesis and its Fate: A Case-Study in the Failure of Case-Studies (1981) (24)
- Science and Religion (2020) (17)
- Chlorine substitution and the future of organic chemistry (1973) (17)
- Darwin and Victorian Christianity (2009) (16)
- “Laws impressed on matter by the Creator”? The Origin and the Question of Religion (2008) (16)
- Darwin and Religion: Correcting the Caricatures (2010) (15)
- The Chatham Administration 1766-1768 (1956) (13)
- Laurent, Gerhardt, and the Philosophy of Chemistry (1975) (13)
- Science and religion around the world (2010) (12)
- Science in theistic contexts: cognitive dimensions (2001) (11)
- Richard Owen, William Whewell, and the Vestiges (1977) (10)
- Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion (2005) (10)
- ‘Wise men nowadays think otherwise’: John Ray, natural theology and the meanings of anthropocentrism (2000) (9)
- Visions of Perfectibility (2005) (8)
- Science and Religion: Lessons from History? (1998) (8)
- RECONCILING RELIGIOUS TRADITION AND MODERN SCIENCE (2012) (7)
- SCIENCE AND THE FORTUNES OF NATURAL THEOLOGY: SOME HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES (1989) (7)
- A secular religion (2005) (7)
- SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT (2012) (6)
- The Galileo affair: teaching AT 17 (1990) (6)
- THAT MODERN SCIENCE HAS SECULARIZED WESTERN CULTURE (2009) (5)
- PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Does the history of science have a future? (1999) (5)
- Thinking about Matter: Studies in the History of Chemical Philosophy (1995) (5)
- Towards a mechanistic philosophy (1974) (5)
- Book Review: Other Worlds Than Ours: Plurality of Worlds: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant (1983) (5)
- New interactions between theology and natural science (1974) (5)
- Living with Theology and Science: From Past to Present (2014) (4)
- The Prime Ministers' papers : W. E. Gladstone (1971) (4)
- Science and Religion: Frontmatter (2014) (3)
- Contributions from the History of Science and Religion (2008) (3)
- Darwin and Catholicism. The past and present dynamics of a cultural encounter . Edited by Louis Caruana. Pp. xi+230. London–New York: T & T Clark, 2009. £65 (cloth), £19.99 (paper). 978 0 567 47631 9; 978 0 567 25672 0 (2011) (3)
- Divine Providence in the Clockwork Universe (2016) (3)
- INTERPRETING THE WORD AND THE WORLD (2011) (3)
- Victorian sensation. The extraordinary publication, reception and secret authorship of Vestiges of the natural history of creation. By James A. Secord. Pp. xix+624 incl. 154 ills. Chicago–London: University of Chicago Press, 2000. £22.50 ($35). 0 226 74410 8 (2002) (3)
- THE AMBIVALENCE OF SCIENTIFIC NATURALISM: A RESPONSE TO MARK HARRIS (2018) (3)
- SCIENCE AND THE SECULARISATION OF KNOWLEDGE: PERSPECTIVES ON SOME EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TRANSFORMATIONS (1989) (3)
- The Scientist as God: A Typological Study of a Literary Motif, 1818 to the Present by Sven Wagner (2013) (3)
- The King Who Lost America: A Portrait of the Life and Times of George III@@@George the Third@@@King George III (1973) (2)
- Science, Religion, and Historical Complexity (2012) (2)
- Advocacy: a role too far for nurses. (2001) (2)
- Darwin, Design, and the Unification of Nature (2005) (2)
- Between Science and Theology: The Defence of Teleology in the Interpretation of Nature, 1820—1876 (1994) (2)
- Darwinism as Religion (2017) (2)
- “Ready to Aid One Another”:: Darwin on Nature, God, and Cooperation (2013) (2)
- Science and Secularization (2019) (2)
- DARWIN AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND MYTH (2018) (1)
- Essay Review: Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church, by Annibale Fantoli, Galileo: A Life, by James Reston, Jr. and Galieo: Decisive Innovator, by Michael Sharratt (1996) (1)
- Speaking of "science and religion"--then and now. (1992) (1)
- Charles Darwin on Religion (2009) (1)
- David Sloan Wilson.Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society. 268 pp., tables, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. $25, £16 (cloth). (2003) (1)
- Genesis and the Scientists (2009) (1)
- Detracting from divine power? Religious belief and the appraisal of new technologies. (2003) (1)
- Commentary on: The person, the soul and genetic engineering* (2004) (1)
- Science, Eastern Orthodoxy, and World Religions (2016) (1)
- “IF I WERE GOD”: EINSTEIN AND RELIGION (2007) (1)
- Can scientific discovery be a religious experience (2003) (1)
- Chemistry with and without God (2019) (1)
- Simon Black in Space (1957) (1)
- Historical Perspectives on Religion and Science (2010) (1)
- The relationships of science and religion. (1993) (1)
- The search for extra-terrestrial life (2005) (1)
- From physico-theology to bio-technology: essays in the social and cultural history of biosciences: a Festschrift for Mikuláš Teich (2000) (0)
- Book Review:Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science Michael Horace Barnes (2001) (0)
- Myth 25. That Modern Science Has Secularized Western Culture (2009) (0)
- Trek to the Tibesti Range (1968) (0)
- Wellington: Political Correspondence. Volume 1, 1833-November 1834 (1977) (0)
- Darwinism and the Survival of Religion (2018) (0)
- Evolutionary Theory and Religious Belief (2014) (0)
- John Everett Dutton (2004) (0)
- Chemistry Studies in the History of Chemistry . By Sir Harold Hartley. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. viii + 243. £2.75. (1972) (0)
- Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1992. Pp. xvii + 458. ISBN 0-679-40104-0. $27.50. (1994) (0)
- Modernity at the Margins (2006) (0)
- Book review. (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews : Doctrine, Creation, and Science (1992) (0)
- Into all the World: expanding the History of Science and Religion beyond the Abrahamic Faiths (2017) (0)
- The crisis of evolution (1974) (0)
- Scientific devotion (2019) (0)
- Round Table: “Religion vs Philosophy?” (2000) (0)
- Richard G. Olson.Science and Scientism in Nineteenth‐Century Europe. ix + 349 pp., figs., index. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. $27 (paper). (2009) (0)
- The Prime Ministers' Papers: W. E. Gladstone. Volume 2, Autobiographical Memoranda 1832-1845 (1975) (0)
- Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev and Peter C. Kjærgaard (eds.), Creationism in Europe . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 276. ISBN 978-1-4214-1562-8. £26.00 (hardback). (2016) (0)
- When two worldviews meet : a dialogue between the Bhagavata Purana and contemporary biological theory (2008) (0)
- Samuel Wilberforce, Thomas Huxley, and Genesis (2011) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature William R. Newman (2005) (0)
- Book Review:The Fontana History of Chemistry William H. Brock (1994) (0)
- ’Whose Science? Whose Religion?’ (2017) (0)
- Science and Religion: Science and Religion in the Twentieth Century (2014) (0)
- Index to volume 41 (1987) (0)
- Darwin's Religious Journey (2011) (0)
- J. H. Brooke, Commentary On: The Person, the Soul and Genetic Engineering (2005) (0)
- Science and Religion in the Scientific Revolution (2014) (0)
- Chapter 10 From Avogadro to Cannizzaro : The Old Story (0)
- The search for extra-terrestrial life: historical and theological perspectives (2005) (0)
- Book Review (2008) (0)
- Science and Religion: Visions of the Past: Religious Belief and the Historical Sciences (2014) (0)
- Introduction ‘Small beginnings in a disturbed world’ (1997) (0)
- Book Reviews (1992) (0)
- Deborah Madden, ‘A cheap, safe and natural medicine’: religion, medicine and culture in John Wesley’s Primitive physic, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 83, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2007, pp. 313, €65.00 (hardback 978-90-420-2274-4). (2009) (0)
- Reviews : Rivka Feldhay, Galileo and the Church: Political Inquisition or Critical Dialogue? Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-34468-9, 1995; viii + 303 pp.; £35.00 (1997) (0)
- Dissertation When Two Worldviews Meet: A Dialogue Between the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa & Contemporary Biology (2012) (0)
- The Prime Ministers' papers, 1801-1902 : a survey of the privately preserved papers of those statesmen who held the Office of Prime Minister during the 19th century (1968) (0)
- Russell McCormmach as a colleague (2007) (0)
- Alister E. McGrath: Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology (2013) (0)
- Book Review:Jacob Berzelius: The Emergence of His Chemical System Evan M. Melhado (1983) (0)
- Orthodox Christian Physicians and Scholars in the Ottoman Court: A Commentary (2019) (0)
- Science and Religion (2020) (0)
- ROBERT J. RUSSELL, WILLIAM R. STOEGER S.J., GEORGE V. COYNE S.J. (eds.), Physics, Philosophy and Theology: a Common Quest for Understanding, Vatican City State 1988, 419 pp. (1990) (0)
- The Fortunes and Functions of Natural Theology (2014) (0)
- REVISITING WILLIAM PALEY (2022) (0)
- Matthew Stanley, Practical Mystic: Religion, Science and A. S. Eddington . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x+313. ISBN 978-0-226-77097-0. $37.50, £22.00 (hardback). (2009) (0)
- Orthodoxy and Science: Varieties of Engagement and Indifference (2018) (0)
- Reassessing Lemaître’s science and religion (2015) (0)
- Simon Black on Venus (1974) (0)
- Essay Review: Matters of Fact and Faith: Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church, Galileo: A Life, Galileo: Decisive Innovator (1996) (0)
- Pathways to Citizen Advocacy: Foundation Units: Manual 1 (2000) (0)
- Divine Activity in a Mechanical Universe (2014) (0)
- Peter J. Bowler, Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence . Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. xii + 250, illus. ISBN 0-631-16818-4. £19.95. (1992) (0)
- Promethean Ambitions; Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature (2005) (0)
- Evolution and Religion (2014) (0)
- Science and Religion: Interaction between Science and Religion: Some Preliminary Considerations (2014) (0)
- Nicolaas A. Rupke (Editor).Eminent Lives in Twentieth‐Century Science and Religion. 255 pp., app., bibls., index. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007. $45.95 (paper). (2008) (0)
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1973) (0)
- AFTERWORD: The Instantiation of Historical Complexity (2019) (0)
- Friends and Enemies: Breaking Down the Dichotomies between Science and Religion (2006) (0)
- Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England: Richard Cumberland's De legibus naturae, Jon Parkin (2001) (0)
- Book reviewThe revolution in science 1500–1570: By A. Rupert Hall. Pp. 373. Longman, London. 1983. Paperback £8.95 (1984) (0)
- A different sort of Darwinism (1984) (0)
- Round Table during the Conference "Orthodox Christianity and the Reassessment of Scientific Knowledge" (2018) (0)
- Science and Religion: Science and Religion in the Enlightenment (2014) (0)
- Victorian sensation (Book) (2002) (0)
- George Grenville: A Political Life (1987) (0)
- Book Review:The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry Alan J. Rocke (1994) (0)
- Book Review:The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method: Historical Studies John A. Schuster, Richard R. Yeo (1987) (0)
- Reviews : Michael Segre, In the Wake of Galileo, New Brunswick, Rutgers Univer sity Press, ISBN 0-8135-1700-1, 1991; xix + 192 pp.; US $27.95 (1993) (0)
- Stephen Gaukroger, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685 . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Pp. ix+563. ISBN 0-19-929644-8. £35.00 (hardback). (2008) (0)
- Nineteenth Century (1975) (0)
- The Chemistry of Organic and the Inorganic--a study in the dynamic interaction of Concepts (1980) (0)
- A survey and analysis of police attitudes : an honors thesis ([HONRS] 499) (1981) (0)
- Rational faith (1990) (0)
- The Parallel between Scientific and Religious Reform (2014) (0)
- Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin . London: Michael Joseph, 1991. Pp. xxi + 808. ISBN 0-7181-3430-3. £20.00. (1993) (0)
- D. KNIGHT and H. KRAGH (eds.), The Making of the Chemist. The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 347 pp. (ISBN 0 521 58351 9), £ 50.00 (US$80.00). (1999) (0)
- Michael Ruse (Editor).The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. xvii + 568 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. $178.95 (cloth). (2014) (0)
- Deism in enlightenment England. Theology, politics, and Newtonian public science . By Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) Pp. ix+238. Manchester–New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. £60. 978 0 7190 7872 9 (2010) (0)
- Orthodox Christianity and the Reassessment of Scientific Knowledge - Day 2 (2018) (0)
- Book reviews: Immaterial beings or substantiated experiments? (1993) (0)
- Olaf Pedersen, The Book of Nature , Vatican City and Notre Dame, Indiana: Vatican Observatory Publications/University of Notre Dame Press, 1992. Pp. vii + 92. ISBN 0-268-00690-3. $9.95. (1993) (0)
- Darwiniana D. R. Oldroyd, Darwinian impacts: an introduction to the Darwinian revolution . Milton Keynes: The Open University Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 398. £7.95. (1982) (0)
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