John Gascoigne, University of New South Wales, Australia

'Gascoigne combines formidable erudition with a very readable prose style, using well-chosen quotations from contemporary sources to point up his incisive analytical judgements.' Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 36(3).282-283 'These studies deserve re-publication as a collection... they provide a penetrating view of the interplay of intellectual and political currents in the universities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.' The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

• Contents: Isaac Barrow’s academic milieu: Interregnum and Restoration Cambridge; The universities and the Scientific Revolution: the case of Newton and Restoration Cambridge; The Cambridge curriculum in the age of Newton as revealed through the accounts of Samuel Blithe; Politics, patronage and Newtonianism: the Cambridge example; Mathematics and meritocracy: the emergence of the Cambridge mathematical tripos; Church and state allied:the failure of parliamentary reform of the English universities, 1688-1800; A reappraisal of the role of the universities in the Scientific Revolution; The 18th-century scientific community: a prosopographical study; The universities and the Enlightenment; Index.

John Gascoigne, University of New South Wales, Australia

'Gascoigne combines formidable erudition with a very readable prose style, using well-chosen quotations from contemporary sources to point up his incisive analytical judgements.' Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 36(3).282-283 'These studies deserve re-publication as a collection... they provide a penetrating view of the interplay of intellectual and political currents in the universities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.' The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

• Contents: Isaac Barrow’s academic milieu: Interregnum and Restoration Cambridge; The universities and the Scientific Revolution: the case of Newton and Restoration Cambridge; The Cambridge curriculum in the age of Newton as revealed through the accounts of Samuel Blithe; Politics, patronage and Newtonianism: the Cambridge example; Mathematics and meritocracy: the emergence of the Cambridge mathematical tripos; Church and state allied:the failure of parliamentary reform of the English universities, 1688-1800; A reappraisal of the role of the universities in the Scientific Revolution; The 18th-century scientific community: a prosopographical study; The universities and the Enlightenment; Index.

John Gascoigne, University of New South Wales, Australia

'Gascoigne combines formidable erudition with a very readable prose style, using well-chosen quotations from contemporary sources to point up his incisive analytical judgements.' Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 36(3).282-283 'These studies deserve re-publication as a collection... they provide a penetrating view of the interplay of intellectual and political currents in the universities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.' The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

• Contents: Isaac Barrow’s academic milieu: Interregnum and Restoration Cambridge; The universities and the Scientific Revolution: the case of Newton and Restoration Cambridge; The Cambridge curriculum in the age of Newton as revealed through the accounts of Samuel Blithe; Politics, patronage and Newtonianism: the Cambridge example; Mathematics and meritocracy: the emergence of the Cambridge mathematical tripos; Church and state allied:the failure of parliamentary reform of the English universities, 1688-1800; A reappraisal of the role of the universities in the Scientific Revolution; The 18th-century scientific community: a prosopographical study; The universities and the Enlightenment; Index.