The Bridgewater Treatises was a series of eight volumes by prominent English scientists and religious figures, written between 1833 and 1836 to show that the sciences and the Christian Bible were not in conflict with one another, but were in harmony. The series was funded through a bequest by the Earl of Bridgewater in 1829 and administered by the Royal Society of London. The prestige of the authors gave considerable weight to the works in discussions about religion and nature in Britain and her English-speaking former colonies.