This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutio

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of articles by John Gas

In these articles John Henry argues on the one hand for the intimate relationship between religion and early modern attempts to develop new understandings of na

The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the