1. Science at the cross-roads (London, 1932), 147–212. Merton, 565, draws attention to G. N. Clark's criticism of this essay in Science and social welfare in the Age of Newton (Oxford, 1937) but it is not wholly clear to me that Merton's monograph is not, in less measure, liable to some of the same criticisms. In particular, Merton hardly stresses the significance of the intrinsic interest of science upon which Clark (86–91) properly insists.
2. Colie Rosalie L.Miss (Light and enlightenment, a study of the Cambridge Platonists and the Dutch Arminians, Cambridge, 1957, 4) remarks: “fundamentalist sects tended to fear research into the natural sciences … to fear that the study of the phenomena of natural science might prove, as it traditionally was viewed, as the easy sliding pathway to atheism, or at least to scepticism”.
3. Westfall Richard S., Science and religion in seventeenth century England (New Haven, 1958), 7. In a footnote the author adds, “Although I believe that some connection between Puritanism and early modern science (in England, presumably) has been established, the definitive treatment of it remains to be written.”