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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John Brooke is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, Oxford University. Ian Maclean is Professor of Renaissance Studies, Oxford University, and Senior Research Fellow, All Souls.
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There were, of course, mute inglorious heterodox thinkers in the early modern period whose speculations were lost on the desert air: Carlo Ginzburg has given a fascinating account of one such village philosopher in The Cheese and the Worms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Press, Royal Society, Joseph Priestley, General Scholium, French Prophets, Pierre Gassendi, New York, Opera Omnia, Republic of Letters, Giulio Cesare Vanini, Grand Duchess, John Donne, Julius Caesar, William Whiston, Bodleian Library, Thomas Hobbes, Classical Scholia, David Gregory, Galileo Galilei, Jesus Christ, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Pietro Pomponazzi, Boxmaker's Revenge, William Stukeley New!
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There were, of course, mute inglorious heterodox thinkers in the early modern period whose speculations were lost on the desert air: Carlo Ginzburg has given a fascinating account of one such village philosopher in The Cheese and the Worms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dual reformation, prisca tradition, corporeal deity, prisca sapientia, libertinage érudit, primary fluid, subtle ether, incorporeal substance, delle parole, prime matter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Press, Royal Society, Joseph Priestley, General Scholium, French Prophets, Pierre Gassendi, New York, Opera Omnia, Republic of Letters, Giulio Cesare Vanini, Grand Duchess, John Donne, Julius Caesar, William Whiston, Bodleian Library, Thomas Hobbes, Classical Scholia, David Gregory, Galileo Galilei, Jesus Christ, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Pietro Pomponazzi, Boxmaker's Revenge, William Stukeley New!
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- Mathematical principles of natural philosophy and Treatise On Light (Great books of the Western World, v. 34) by Isaac Newton on 4 pages
- Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Isaac Newton on 4 pages
- Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science) by John Hedley Brooke on 4 pages
- The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy by C. B. Schmitt on 4 pages
- Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine (Ideas in Context) by Ian Maclean in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 3
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