Science and Religion in the English‐speaking World 1600‐1727: A Bibliographic Guide to the Secondary Literature

One of the factors underlying a major cause of conflict in the world today is that Islam, having started off as the most open and scientifically aware of all the world’s major religions, has never been through the changes that Christendom went through between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. This lends some topicality to what might seem otherwise to be an extraordinarily abstruse volume.

This is indeed a labour of love, or possibly started out as one. I get the impression that, over the years in which they have been compiling this, the authors have been gradually overwhelmed by the...