Description: 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.
Review Quotes: David Boyd Haycock's excellent biography ably demonstrates that there was much more to Stukeley than stone circles. [It is] a work that on the one hand uses an impressive range of printed and underexploited manuscript sources and on the other brings to Stukeley's career a sophisticated historical analysis that places its subject firmly in his intellectual and religious worlds.-- "ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW"