@edinburghup.bsky.social have recently published my blog post on science and religion in 19th-century Scotland, so I thought I'd share it with you all.
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Another illustration from David Brewster's wonderful Letters on Natural Magic (1832). What's going on here? (No prizes for correct answers!)

Any guesses as to where this picture comes from or what it shows?

Robert Owen (1771–1858) on 'great men' and morality in history (from Charles Gibbon's Life of George Combe (1878)). Perhaps this is a catechism that we can still learn from.

My new book, David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793-1843, comes out this month from Edinburgh University Press. Thanks to everyone at EUP and all my colleagues on the 'After the Enlightenment' project at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-david-b...