Galileo Goes To Jail And Other Myths About Science And Religion
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Author | : Ronald L. Numbers |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2010-11-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674256956 |
If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, Ronald Numbers suggests that we must first dispense with the hoary myths that have masqueraded too long as historical truths. Until about the 1970s, the dominant narrative in the history of science had long been that of science triumphant, and science at war with religion. But a new generation of historians both of science and of the church began to examine episodes in the history of science and religion through the values and knowledge of the actors themselves. Now 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.
Author | : Ronald L. Numbers |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2015-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674967984 |
A Guardian “Favourite Reads—as Chosen by Scientists” Selection “Tackles some of science’s most enduring misconceptions.” —Discover A falling apple inspired Isaac Newton’s insight into the law of gravity—or did it really? Among the many myths debunked in this refreshingly irreverent book are the idea that alchemy was a superstitious pursuit, that Darwin put off publishing his theory of evolution for fear of public reprisal, and that Gregor Mendel was ahead of his time as a pioneer of genetics. More recent myths about particle physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity are discredited too, and a number of dubious generalizations, like the notion that science and religion are antithetical, or that science can neatly be distinguished from pseudoscience, go under the microscope of history. Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away popular fictions and refutes the widespread belief that science advances when individual geniuses experience “Eureka!” moments and suddenly grasp what those around them could never imagine. “Delightful...thought-provoking...Every reader should find something to surprise them.” —Jim Endersby, Science “Better than just countering the myths, the book explains when they arose and why they stuck.” —The Guardian
Author | : Ronald L. Numbers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion and science |
ISBN | : |
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. --from publisher description.
Author | : Andrew Dickson White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Religion and science |
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Author | : Derrick Peterson |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2021-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1532653336 |
We are all haunted by histories. They shape our presuppositions and ballast our judgments. In terms of science and religion this means most of us walk about haunted by rumors of a long war. However, there is no such thing as the “history of the conflict of science and Christianity,” and this is a book about it. In the last half of the twentieth century a sea change in the history of science and religion occurred, revealing not only that the perception of protracted warfare between religion and science was a curious set of mythologies that had been combined together into a sort of supermyth in need of debunking. It was also seen that this collective mythology arose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by historians involved in many sides of the debates over Darwin’s discoveries, and from there latched onto the public imagination at large. Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes takes the reader on a journey showing how these myths were constructed, collected together, and eventually debunked. Join us for a story of flat earths and fake footnotes, to uncover the strange tale of how the conflict of science and Christianity was written into history.
Author | : Philip Clayton |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks Online |
Total Pages | : 1041 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199279276 |
The field of `science and religion' is exploding in popularity among both academics and the reading public. This is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the debate, written by the leading experts yet accessible to the general reader.
Author | : Ronald L. Numbers |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674193123 |
Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Numbers gets to the heart of American resistance to Darwin's ideas. He provides a much-needed historical perspective on today's quarrels about creationism and evolution--and illuminates the specifically American nature of this struggle.
Author | : Harry G. West |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226894126 |
According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G. West made a revealing discovery—for many of them, West’s efforts to elaborate an ethnographic vision of their world was itself a form of sorcery. In Ethnographic Sorcery, West explores the fascinating issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of West’s research into sorcery is that one sorcerer’s claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers. After West’s attempt to construct a metaphorical interpretation of Muedan assertions that the lions prowling their villages are fabricated by sorcerers is disputed by his Muedan research collaborators, West realized that ethnography and sorcery indeed have much in common. Rather than abandoning ethnography, West draws inspiration from this connection, arguing that anthropologists, along with the people they study, can scarcely avoid interpreting the world they inhabit, and that we are all, inescapably, ethnographic sorcerers.
Author | : Philip J. Sampson |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-01-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 083082281X |
In this book Philip J. Sampson dispels six myths about Christianity and Western civilization and results in unsettling conven-tional wisdom and providing an enlightening look at truth.
Author | : Edward Grant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1996-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521567626 |
This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of the Middle Ages as they relate to early modern science.