Louis Figuier's 'The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science' is a thought-provoking exploration of the concept of the afterlife as viewed through a scientific lens. Figuier combines scientific principles with spiritual beliefs to present a comprehensive analysis of what may await us after death. Written in a clear and engaging style, the book delves into topics such as the nature of the soul, post-mortem existence, and the possibility of an afterlife based on scientific evidence. Drawing on the latest scientific discoveries of his time, Figuier provides a fascinating look at the intersection of science and spirituality in the quest to understand what lies beyond death. This work bridges the gap between the realms of faith and reason, offering readers a unique perspective on the age-old question of life after death.

The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected here Martin Rudwick traces how it came to be recognised as a new kind of natural science, because it was constituted around the idea that the natural world had its own history. The earth had to be understood not only in relation to unchanging natural laws that could be observed in action in the present, but also in terms of a pre-human past that could be reliably known, even if not directly observable and its traces only fragmentarily preserved. In contrast to this radically novel sense of nature's own contingent history, the earth's unimaginably vast timescale was already taken for granted by many naturalists (though not yet by the wider public), and the concurrent development of biblical scholarship precluded any significant sense of conflict with religious tradition. A companion volume, Lyell and Darwin, Geologists: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Reform, was published in 2005.