Galileo goes to jail : and other myths about science and religion /

• Other Authors: Numbers, Ronald L. (επιμελητής)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Επιστήμη > Ιστορία; Επιστήμονες > Ιστορία.; Θρησκεία και κράτος > Ιστορία.; Θρησκεία και επιστήμη > Ιστορία

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...