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Science -- History.
Scientists -- History.
Religion and science -- History.
Religion and state -- History.
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Galileo goes to jail...
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Science -- History.
Scientists -- History.
Religion and science -- History.
Religion and state -- History.
MARC Display
Galileo
goes
to
jail
: and
other
myths
about
science
and
religion
/ edited by Ronald L. Numbers.
Harvard University Press, 2009.
Call #:
215 G158
Subjects
Science
-- History.
Scientists -- History.
Religion
and
science
-- History.
Religion
and state -- History.
ISBN:
9780674033276
0674033272
Description:
x, 302 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-284) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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
and
religion
at each
other
's throats persists in mainstream media and scholarly journals, but each chapter in
Galileo
Goes
to
Jail
shows how much we have to gain by seeing beyond the
myths
.
Other authors:
Numbers, Ronald L.
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