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Bill Jenkins’ deft portrait of David Brewster’s multifaceted scientific career illuminates a long-neglected period in the history of Scottish science. No other book tells us as much about the intersections of Evangelicalism, Whig politics, patronage and the cultivation of natural knowledge in post-Enlightenment Scotland as this one. -- Paul Wood, University of Victoria Carefully researched and well written, Jenkins pieces together facets of patronage that were so important to scientific progress in the early 19th century and explores the influence of politics and religion, often neglected in histories of the. period. This history is a valuable addition to understanding 19th century science and Scotland. -- J. J. Butt, emeritus, James Madison University * CHOICE *

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Dr Bill Jenkins is a lecturer in the School of History at the University of St Andrews, working on a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust entitled 'After the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, c.1790-c.1843'. Jenkins received his PhD at the University of Edinburgh has published several papers in key journals, including the Journal of the History of Biology, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies and British Journal for the History of Science. He is the author of Evolution Before Darwin: Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 18041834 (EUP, 2019).

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