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== Further reading ==
Addinall, Peter (1991). Philosophy and Biblical Interpretation: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Alexander, Denis R.; Numbers, Ronald L. (2010). Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-60842-6.
"Authors of the Bridgewater Treatises (act. c. 1833–1836)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/96360. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
Brock, W. H. (1966). "The Selection of the Authors of the Bridgewater Treatises". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 21 (2): 162–179. ISSN 0035-9149.
Clark, John F. M. (2009). Bugs and the Victorians. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-15091-9.
Desmond, Adrian. The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-14453-5.
Gillispie, Charles Coulston (1996). Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-34481-5.
Hilton, Boyd (1988). The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1795-1865. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820107-6.
Rehbock, Philip F. (1983). The Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-century British Biology. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-09430-0.
Robson, John M. "The Fiat and Finger of God: The Bridgewater Treatises". In Helmstadter, Richard J.; Lightman, Bernard V. (eds.). Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1602-4.
Rupke, Nicolaas A. (1983). ISBN 978-0-19-822907-0.
Snyder, Laura J. (2011-02-22). The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World. Crown. ISBN 978-0-307-71617-0.
Spurway, Neil. Laws of Nature, Laws of God?: Proceedings of the Science and Religion Forum Conference, 2014. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 91–114. ISBN 978-1-4438-8303-0.
Topham, Jonathan R. (1992). "Science and Popular Education in the 1830s: The Role of the "Bridgewater Treatises"". The British Journal for the History of Science. 25 (4): 397–430. ISSN 0007-0874.
Topham, Jonathan R. (1993). 'An infinite variety of arguments': the Bridgewater Treatises and British natural theology in the 1830s (Ph.D. thesis). University of Lancaster.
Topham, Jonathan R. (1998). "Beyond the "Common Context": The Production and Reading of the Bridgewater Treatises". Isis. 89 (2): 233–262. ISSN 0021-1753.
Topham, Jonathan R. (2022). Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Bestsellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age, University of Chicago Press; ISBN 978-0-226-81576-3
Young, Robert (1985). Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.