Bernard Lightman, Rethinking History, Science, and Religion: An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle. The historical interface between science and religion was depicted as an unbridgeable conflict in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Bernard Lightman, The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880): Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England (Oxford UP, 2019) was co-edited with Richard England and Catherine Marshall. The contributors to the collection aim to shed light on many of the colorful figures that joined the Society...
Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon, Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines (Routledge, 2019) was co-edited with the historian of music Bennett Zon. The volume asks how Victorians defined a discipline ...
Bernard Lightman, Science Museums in Transition, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.
Bernard Lightman, A Companion to the History of Science, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China: The Early-Modern World to the Twentieth Century Bernard Lightman ed. (Bernard Lightman, 2013).
Bernard Lightman and Gowan Dawson, eds. Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
The Papers of the Metaphysical Society: A Critical Edition: Volume 1-3 Catherine Hajdenko-Marshall, Bernard V. Lightman & Richard England eds. (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Bernard V. Lightman and Bennett Zon, eds. Evolution and Victorian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
ISIS Bernard Lightman ed. University of Chicago Press.