Bøker av John Gascoigne

An illustration of the interconnections between science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period, focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. The book examines scientific research and the religious and political circumstances that favoured it.

This book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English Enlightenment' by using late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge as an illustration of the widespread diffusion of some of the chief characteristics of the Enlightenment within the Church of England and the English 'Establishment' more generally.