Abstract
Recent work in the history of science demonstrates an increasing awareness of the significance of space. This ‘geographical turn’ may throw light on the regional infiltration of scientific theories. A case study of the response to evolution among Calvinists in Edinburgh and Belfast during the final decades of the nineteenth century reveals markedly different reactions to the new biology among groups with similar religious convictions. Local circumstances, it is argued, turn out to be of crucial importance in accounting for different ways in which Darwinism was encountered by Presbyterian intellectuals in these two cities.
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