Geoffrey Cantor
Geoffrey N. Cantor is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He has written about Michael Faraday, the wave theory of light and the responses of the Quaker and Jewish religions to science. With John Hedley Brooke he delivered the 1995–1996 Gifford Lecture at the University of Glasgow, which were subsequently published as Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion in 1998. He contributed to the SciPer project, which researches the popularization of science in the periodicals of the 19th century, such as the Boy's Own Paper and Punch, and has lectured upon this subject at the Royal Institution in 2005.Selected works
- ', Oxford University Press, 2005,, 420 pages
- ', edited with Sally Shuttleworth, MIT Press, 2004,, 358 pages
- ', edited with Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Cambridge University Press, 2004,, 329 pages
- ', authored with John Hedley Brooke, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000,, 450 pages
- ', authored with David Gooding, Prometheus Books, 1996,, 111 pages
- ', St. Martin's Press, 1991,, 359 pages
- , Manchester University Press, 1983,, 257 pages
