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Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

Ian Maclean
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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.
Language
English
Pages
406
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Release
January 19, 2006
ISBN
0199268975
ISBN 13
9780199268979

Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

Ian Maclean
4/5 ( ratings)
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.
Language
English
Pages
406
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Release
January 19, 2006
ISBN
0199268975
ISBN 13
9780199268979

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