A Comprehensible Universe The Interplay of Science and Theology /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Coyne, George V. (Συγγραφέας), Heller, Michael (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; History.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Religion.

Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The inquiry into the rationality of the world began over two-and-a-half-thousand years ago, when a few courageous people tried t...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Drama of Rationality
• Discovery that the World is Rational
• Should the Astronomer Look into the Sky?
• Seven Fighters against Thebes
• How to Count the Grains of Sand
• Is the World Rational?
• The Input of Christianity
• Christianity on the Scene
• Theology and Science in the Epoch of the Church Fathers
• The Medieval Contribution
• Discovery of the Method
• Achilles and the Arrow
• The Dynamics of Aristotle
• Three Generations: From Tartaglia to Galileo
• Birth of the Method
• Is the World Mathematical?
• Mathematics at Work
• Afterthoughts
• Afterthoughts.