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Science and religion, 1450-1900 from Copernicus to Darwin

Richard Olson 1940-

Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2006

Localização: EACH - Esc. Artes, Ciências e Humanidades    (509 O52s )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Science and religion, 1450-1900 from Copernicus to Darwin
  • Autor: Richard Olson 1940-
  • Assuntos: Religion and science -- History; HISTÓRIA DA CIÊNCIA; FILOSOFIA DA CIÊNCIA; CIÊNCIA (ASPECTOS RELIGIOSOS); Religion et sciences -- Histoire; Religion; Naturwissenschaften
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-279) and index
  • Descrição: Introduction. Galileo and the Church, or, How do science and religion interact? The conflict model ; The case of the Galileo affair ; Three additional special cases of conflict ; Modern claims that religion supports science -- Religion and the transition to "modern" science : Christian demands for useful knowledge. The starting point : late Medieval science ; Challenges to Medieval science ; Christian humanism and the Hermetic Corpus ; The life and works of Paracelsus ; Christian utopias and the institutions for modern science -- Science and Catholicism in the scientific revolution, 1550-1770. Science and the Council of Trent ; Jesuit science ; Catholics and the mechanical philosophy : Mersenne, Descartes, and Gassendi ; The special case of Blaise Pascal -- Science and religion in England, 1590-1740. The Anglican focus on natural theology ; The Puritan approach to natural knowledge ; The origins of Anglican mechanical philosophy ; The Anti-materialist response to Hobbes -- Newton's religion, Newtonian religions, and eighteenth-century reactions. Newton's science and reputation ; Newton and prophecy interpretation ; Newtonian religion ; John Locke and the rise of Deism ; Reactions against Newtonian natural theology -- Scientific understandings of religion and religious understandings of science, 1700-1859. Early anthropological approaches to religion ; Religion and the emotions ; Immanuel Kant's separation of scientific knowledge from religious faith ; The post-Kantian tradition in German theology : Schleiermacher and Hegel ; A new anthropology of religion : Feuerbach ; David Strauss and the use of science to reject evangelical Christianity ; Auguste Comte's "Religion of humanity" ; Scottish common sense philosophy calls for a scientific religion and a religious science -- Back to the beginnings-- of the Earth, of life, and of humankind, 1680-1859. Mosaic geology ; Secular geology and the age of the earth ; Accounting for change over time ; Buffon ; Lamarck
    The vestiges of the natural history of creation -- What to do about Darwin? The character of Charles Darwin's On the origin of species ; Initial Anglo-American religious responses to Darwin ; Darwinism and concerns about scientific naturalism ; Anglo-American Protestant responses to Darwin after 1875 ; Anglo-American Catholic and Jewish responses to evolution -- Primary sources. Hermetica / Hermes Trismagistus ; The laws of ecclesiastical polity in eight books / Richard Hooker ; "A free inquiry into the vulgarly conceived notion of nature" / Robert Boyle ; The wisdom of God manifested in the works of creation / John Ray ; The theory of the earth / Thomas Burnet ; The natural history of religion / David Hume ; The essence of Christianity / Ludwig Feuerbach ; History of the conflict between religion and science / John William Draper ; The religious aspect of evolution / James McCosh.
  • Editor: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2006
  • Formato: xvii, 292 p ill 24 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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