Geoffrey N. Cantor (born 1943) is Emeritus

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of the

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at the

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and Honorary Senior Research Associate at

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. He has written about

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, the

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and the responses of the Quaker and

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religions to science. With

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he delivered the 1995–1996 Gifford Lecture at the

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, which were subsequently published as ''Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion'' in 1998. He contributed to the SciPer Project, which researches the popularization of science in the

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s of the 19th century, such as the

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and

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, and has lectured upon this subject at the Royal Institution in 2005.

Selected works

* ''Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900'',

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, 2005, , 420 pages * ''Science Serialized: Representation of the Sciences in Nineteenth-century Periodicals'', edited with Sally Shuttleworth,

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, 2004, , 358 pages * ''Science in the Nineteenth-century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature'', edited with Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday,

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, 2004, , 329 pages * ''Reconstructing Nature: Engagement of Science and Religion'', authored with

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, 2000, , 450 pages * ''Michael Faraday'', authored with

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, Prometheus Books, 1996, , 111 pages * ''Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist : a Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century'',

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, 1991, , 359 pages * ''Optics After Newton: Theories of Light in Britain and Ireland, 1704-1840'', Manchester University Press, 1983, , 257 pages

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