Book ID: CBB076113657

The Trinity Circle: Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England (2021)

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Ashworth, William J. (Author)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 296
Language: English

The Trinity Circle explores the creation of knowledge in nineteenth-century England, when any notion of a recognizably modern science was still nearly a century off, religion still infused all ways of elite knowing, and even those who denied its relevance had to work extremely hard to do so. The rise of capitalism during this period—embodied by secular faith, political radicalism, science, commerce, and industry—was, according to Anglican critics, undermining this spiritual world and challenging it with a superficial material one: a human-centric rationalist society hell-bent on measurable betterment via profit, consumption, and a prevalent notion of progress. Here, William J. Ashworth places the politics of science within a far more contested context. By focusing on the Trinity College circle, spearheaded from Cambridge by the polymath William Whewell, he details an ongoing struggle between the Established Church and a quest for change to the prevailing social hierarchy. His study presents a far from unified view of science and religion at a time when new ways of thinking threatened to divide England and even the Trinity College itself.

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Review Lukas M. Verburgt (2022) Review of "The Trinity Circle: Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 667-669). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Crowe, Michael J.
Seth, Sanjay
Wilson, David Ball
Thorvaldsen, Steinar
Sloan, Phillip R.
Reidy, Michael Sean
Concepts
Science and religion
Science and politics
Astronomy
Natural philosophy
Philosophy of science
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
Medieval
14th century
Places
England
Great Britain
Dublin (Ireland)
Scotland
Italy
France
Institutions
Trinity College Dublin
Royal Society of London
Cambridge University
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