Heterodoxy in early modern science and religion
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199268979
- ISBN10 0199268975
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 373
- Any Edició 2005
- Encuadernació Tela
Matèries
Història I Filosofía De La CiènciaHeterodoxy in early modern science and religion
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
The separation of science and religion in modern secular culture can easily obscure the fact that in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe ideas about nature were intimately related to ideas about God. Readers of this book will find fresh and exciting accounts of a phenomenon common to both science and religion: deviation from orthodox belief. How is heterodoxy to be measured? How might the scientific heterodoxy of particular thinkers impinge on their religious views? Would heterodoxy in religion create a predisposition towards heterodoxy in science? Might there be a homology between heterodox views in both domains? Such major protagonists as Galileo and Newton are re-examined together with less familiar figures in order to bring out the extraordinary richness of scientific and religious thought in the pre-modern world.