作者: Lightman Bernard Lightman

<b>Bernard Lightman</b> 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 <i>Rethinking History</i> and <i>Science and Religion</i> and coeditor of <i>Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain</i> and <i>Identity in a Secular Age</i>. 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.<b></b>