Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age
Intro -- Contents -- Note for Teachers -- Introduction. Reading the Book of Nature -- Prelude. Trouble over Bridgewater -- Part I. Writing -- Chapter 1. Becoming a Bridgewater Author -- Chapter 2. Writing God into Nature -- Part II. Publishing -- Chapter 3. Distributing Design -- Chapter 4. Science Serialized -- Part III. Reading -- Chapter 5. Science and the Practice of Religion -- Chapter 6. Preachers and Protagonists -- Chapter 7. Being a Christian "Man of Science" -- Chapter 8. Religion and the Practice of Science -- Conclusion. "The Fashionable Reign of the Bridgewater Treatises" -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Note on Currency and the Value of Money -- Appendix B: British Editions of the Bridgewater Treatises -- Appendix C: British Reviews of the Bridgewater Treatises, 1833-38 -- Works Cited -- Index.
