Description: Sheds New Light on the Stakes in the Conflict between Religion and the Sciences in the Age of Revolution and Reform
Review Quotes: Ashworth's book brilliantly reworks a major character and period in the rise of modernity. His William Whewell works within a coterie of Tory Anglicans--the Trinity Circle--to build, defend, and ultimately lose their grip on liberal education in Cambridge. Ashworth's conclusion is similarly original and startling--Whewell's Anglicanism is still among us, shaping debates from artificial intelligence to the science/humanities divide.--Andrew Warwick, Oxford University