John Brooke / Ian Maclean

Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

Herausgeber: Brooke, John; Maclean, Ian

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 146mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780199268979
• ISBN-10: 0199268975
• Artikelnr.: 21480345

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Ian Maclean: Heterodoxy in Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Pietro
Pomponazzi, Guglielmo Gratarolo, Girolamo Cardano
* 2: David Wootton: John Donne's Religion of Love
* 3: Nicholas S. Davidson: `Le plus beau et le plus meschant esprit que
ie aye cogneu': Science and Religion in the Writings of Giulio Cesare
Vanini, 1585-1619
* 4: Christoph Luthy: Heresies, Facts, and the Travails of the Republic
of Letters: Explanations of the Eucharist
* 5: William Carroll: Galileo Galilei and the Myth of Heterodoxy
* 6: Tabitta van Nouhuys: Copernicanism, Jansenism, and Remonstrantism
in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands
* 7: Margaret Osler: When did Pierre Gassendi become a Libertine?
* 8: Cees Leijenhorst: Thomas Hobbes, Heresy, and Corporeal Deity
* 9: Stephen D. Snobolen: `The true frame of Nature': Isaac Newton,
Heresy, and the Reformation of Natural Philosophy
* 10: Scott Mandelbrote: The Heterodox Career of Nicolas Fatio de
Duillier
* 11: David Boyd Haycock: `Claiming Him as her son': William Stukeley,
Isaac Newton, and the Archaeology of the Trinity
* 12: John Brooke: Joining Natural Philosophy to Christianity: The Case
of Joseph Priestley