List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations and Conventions; A Note on Dates; 1 Introduction: Science in 'Dissenting' Religious Communities; 1.1 Scope of this study; 2 Two Communities; 2.1 The Quaker community; 2.2 The Anglo-Jewish community; 3 Education and Careers; 3.1 Schools; 3.2 Medical education; 3.3 The University of London; 3.4 Cambridge and Oxford; 3.5 Scientific and science-related careers; 4 Scientific Institutions; 4.1 Quakers and Jews in the Royal Society; 4.2 The British Association for the Advancement of Science
4.3 The Aborigines' Protection Society and the Ethnological Society4.4 Quaker cultural and scientific organizations; 4.5 Jews' and General Literary and Scientific Institution; 4.6 The Great Exhibition; 5 Trajectories in Science; 5.1 Wealthy amateurs: science among the Quaker and Jewish élites; 5.2 Traders: Peter Collinson and Emanuel Mendes da Costa; 5.3 Travellers: James Backhouse and Moses Montefiore; 5.4 Jewish Newtonians; 5.5 Cumbrian Quaker astronomers and meteorologists; 5.6 Engineers and entrepreneurs: the Samuda Brothers and Charles May; 5.7 Industry and science: Robert Were Fox
5.8 Science/technical educators: Priscilla Wakefield and Ellis Davidson5.9 Social statisticians: John S. Rowntree and Joseph Jacobs; 6 Quaker Attitudes and Practices; 6.1 The science of Dissent; 6.2 The Inner Light and the study of nature; 6.3 Dangers posed by science; 7 Quaker Responses to Evolution; 7.1 Quaker assessments of evolution; 7.2 Responses to evolution by Quaker scientists; 8 Jewish Attitudes and Practices; 8.1 Science and ritual; 8.2 Mosaic science; 8.3 Physico-theology; 8.4 Scientific method; 9 Jewish Responses to Evolution
9.1 Positioning Anglo-Jewry with respect to mid-Victorian science9.2 Jewish assessments of evolution; 9.3 The rise of Liberal Judaism; 9.4 A robust Jewish Darwinian: Raphael Meldola; 10 Historical Comparisons and Historiographical Reflections; Appendix 1 Who is to count as a Quaker or as a Jew?; Appendix 2 Oath and Affirmation used at graduation ceremony at Edinburgh University; Appendix 3 Quaker and Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society of London; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
How do science and religion interact? This study examines the ways in which two minorities in Britain - the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities - engaged with science. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material, Geoffrey Cantor charts the participation of Quakers and Jews in many different aspects of science
