Reviews of Peter Harrison’s The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 1-520-59096-0) and Alfred W. Crosby’s The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society 1250-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 1-520-63991-5), from Christianity & Society, Vol. IX, No. 4, (October 1999)