Bernard Lightman (Editor) Bernard Lightman is distinguished research professor in the Humanities Department at York University and past president of the History of Science Society. He is the editor of Rethinking History and Science and Religion and coeditor of Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Identity in a Secular Age. He also serves as a general editor for The Correspondence of John Tyndall and the Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series at the University of Pittsburgh Press.Sarah Qidwai (Editor) Sarah Qidwai is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Regensburg. Qidwai is a historian of science and empire in the nineteenth century. Broadly speaking, she works on transnational and local perspectives of various scientific disciplines.

The heterogeneity of the chapters and approaches taken by the authors is one of this volume’s strengths, and the thematic organization allows for broad geographic and religious coverage as well as innovative discussions of individuals and intellectual movements that might be lost or obscured in a more traditional account of reception and transmission limited to a specific national or doctrinal context.

Bernard Lightman (Editor) Bernard Lightman is distinguished research professor in the Humanities Department at York University and past president of the History of Science Society. He is the editor of Rethinking History and Science and Religion and coeditor of Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Identity in a Secular Age. He also serves as a general editor for The Correspondence of John Tyndall and the Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series at the University of Pittsburgh Press.Sarah Qidwai (Editor) Sarah Qidwai is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Regensburg. Qidwai is a historian of science and empire in the nineteenth century. Broadly speaking, she works on transnational and local perspectives of various scientific disciplines.

The heterogeneity of the chapters and approaches taken by the authors is one of this volume’s strengths, and the thematic organization allows for broad geographic and religious coverage as well as innovative discussions of individuals and intellectual movements that might be lost or obscured in a more traditional account of reception and transmission limited to a specific national or doctrinal context.

Bernard Lightman (Editor) Bernard Lightman is distinguished research professor in the Humanities Department at York University and past president of the History of Science Society. He is the editor of Rethinking History and Science and Religion and coeditor of Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Identity in a Secular Age. He also serves as a general editor for The Correspondence of John Tyndall and the Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series at the University of Pittsburgh Press.Sarah Qidwai (Editor) Sarah Qidwai is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Regensburg. Qidwai is a historian of science and empire in the nineteenth century. Broadly speaking, she works on transnational and local perspectives of various scientific disciplines.

The heterogeneity of the chapters and approaches taken by the authors is one of this volume’s strengths, and the thematic organization allows for broad geographic and religious coverage as well as innovative discussions of individuals and intellectual movements that might be lost or obscured in a more traditional account of reception and transmission limited to a specific national or doctrinal context.