Huxleys Church and Maxwells Demon From Theistic by Matthew Stanley PAPERBACK

Huxleys Church and Maxwells Demon From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science\nby Matthew Stanley\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Matthew Stanley\nTitle: Huxleys Church and Maxwells Demon From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of science\nPublisher: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226422336\nISBN-10: 022642233X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDuring the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shift occurred because naturalistic science was distinct from and superior to theistic science. Yet as Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon reveals, most of the methodological values underlying scientific practice were virtually ident.