William Stukeley

Autorentext
DAVID BOYD HAYCOCK is Leverhulme Research Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester, and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Klappentext
David Boyd Haycock is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Zusammenfassung
Stukeley's antiquarian researches, particularly into the great stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury, were the first to reveal their great antiquity. Friend of Newton, his life embodies the classic Enlightenment confrontation between science and religion.

Inhalt
Part 1 The book of nature: standing on the shoulders of giants - the intellectual background; "soe suitable to my genius" - an 18th-century education; the microcosm - doctor and anatomies; the macrocosm - new theories of the universe. Part 2 The book of God: the curious itinerary - antiquities and the history of Britain; the long-lost truth - ancient history and the origins of theology; much greater than commonly imagined - Celtic Druids and the universal religion; "I have every been studious in divinity" - archaeology in Defence of Newtoninism; "a truely to-be-respected - the reputation of Dr Stukeley; these learned lives - the influence of Dr Stukeley.

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