Galileo goes to jail : and other myths about science and religion /
Ronald Numbers has recruited the leading scholars in this new history of science to puncture the myths, from Galileo's incarceration to Darwin's deathbed conversion to Einstein's belief in a personal God who "didn't play dice with the universe." The picture of science a...
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2009.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Table of contents only |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- That the rise of Christianity was responsible for the demise of ancient science / David C. Lindberg
- That the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of science / Michael H. Shank
- That medieval Christians taught that the earth was flat / Lesley B. Cormack
- That medieval Islamic culture was inhospitable to science / Syed Nomanul Haq
- That the medieval church prohibited human dissection / Katharine Park
- That Copernicanism demoted humans from the center of the cosmos / Dennis R. Danielson
- That Giordano Bruno was the first martyr of modern science / Jole Shackelford
- That Galileo was imprisoned and tortured for advocating Copernicanism / Maurice A. Finocchiaro
- That Christianity gave birth to modern science / Noah J. Efron
- That the scienfitic revolution liberated science from religion / Margaret J. Osler
- That Catholics did not contribute to the scientific revolution / Lawrence M. Principe
- That René Descartes originated the mind-body distinction / Peter Harrison
- That Isaac Newton's mechanistic cosmology eliminated the need for God / Edward B. Davis
- That the church denounced anesthesia in childbirth on biblical grounds / Rennie B. Schoepflin
- That the theory of organic evolution is based on circular reasoning / Nicolaas A. Rupke
- That evolution destroyed Darwin's faith in Christianity : until he reconverted on his deathbed / James Moore
- That Huxley defeated Wilberforce in their debate over evolution and religion / David N. Livingstone
- That Darwin destroyed natural theology / Jon H. Roberts
- That Darwin and Haeckel were complicit in Nazi biology / Robert J. Richards
- That the Scopes trial ended in defeat for antievolutionism / Edward J. Larson
- That Einstein believed in a personal God / Matthew Stanley
- That Quantum physics demonstrated the doctrine of free will / Daniel Patrick Thurs
- That "intelligent design" represents a scientific challenge to evolution / Michael Ruse
- That creationism is a uniquely American phenomenon / Ronald L. Numbers
- That modern science has secularized Western culture / John Hedley Brooke.
