Jonathan A. Stapley

JONATHAN A. STAPLEY {[email protected]} is a scientist and historian. Oxford University Press published his Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology in 2018.

The Words and Worlds of Smith and Brown Samuel Morris Brown, Joseph Smith’s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 3

In 1887 Albert Michelson and Edward Morley performed what was intended to be the crowning accomplishment of physics—an experiment to determine how movement through the luminiferous ether changed the speed of light. What they found…

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A Missive on Mountain Meadows

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 1

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Review: Edward Leo Lyman, Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889–1895

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 1

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Reviews: Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds. Journals, Volume 1: 1832–1839Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds. Journals, Volume 2: December 1841–April 1843

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 1

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