Download or read book Reading the Book of Nature written by Jonathan R. Topham and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : Reading the book of nature -- Prelude : trouble over Bridgewater -- Part I: Writing. Becoming a Bridgewater author; Writing God into nature --Part II: Publishing. Distributing design; Science serialized -- Part III: Reading. Science and the practice of religion; Preachers and protagonists; Being a Christian "man of science"; Religion and the practice of science -- Conclusion : "the fashionable reign of the Bridgewater Treatises".