About Bernard Lightman Bernard Lightman is a professor of the history of science at York University. He specializes in the relationship between science and unbelief in the Victorian era, and he is a former president of the History of Science Society. Books by Bernard Lightman The Origins of Agnosticism Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge by (author) Bernard Lightman The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England edited by Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman & Richard England The Papers of the Metaphysical Society, 1869-1880 A Critical Edition edited by Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman & Richard England