Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion
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* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages: 406
* Publication Date: 2005-12-23
* Sales Rank: 1488691
* ISBN / ASIN: 0199268975
* EAN: 9780199268979
* Binding: Hardcover
* Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
* Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Description:

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.

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