English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Zendy Open

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Insights

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Zendy Tools

Zendy Plus

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

A far as I am aware, no comprehensive study exists of early Quaker attitudes to science and medicine. This is particularly surprising in the light of the recent historical debate concerning the "puritan" origins of scientific reform in seventeenth-century England, yet it must be said that Quaker sources have on the whole been ignored. 1 More over, where the scientific and medical opinions of early Friends have elicited historical comment, it is customarily%?' assumed that Quaker attitudes to science were to a large extent related to the general "puritan" predilection for educational and scientific reform. As a result, historians of Quakerism such as Frederick Tolles and Richard Greaves have been able to establish the progressive nature of Quaker science which they believe to have derived from the ''puritan" commitment to the utilitarian natural philosophy of Francis Bacon. According to Greaves therefore, the Quakers are to be firmly located within the "puritan Baconian" tradition, for:

Medicine, science and the Quakers: the "Puritanism-science" debate reconsidered.