书名: The Word and the World: Biblical Exegesis and Early Modern Science
作者: Kevin Killeen (Editor), Peter Forshaw (Editor)
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan (July 10, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0230507077
ISBN-13: 978-0230507074
Book Description
This book explores the impact of biblical reading practices on scientific thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Looking beyond the canonical figures of science and exploring the full European stage, the collection addresses the presuption that natural philosophers forged their new sciences despite rather than because of the pervasive bible-centeredness of early modern thought. The essays engage iwth long-running debates ofer religion and science, and the supposition that scriptural exegesis was a hindrance rather than a catalyst to science.
About the Author
KEVIN KILLEEN is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Reading, UK, and writes on Early Modern Religion and the History of Ideas. PETER J. FORSHAW is a lecturer and British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and researches Early Modern Magic, Science and Religion, as well as teaching Renaissance Literature.
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作者: Kevin Killeen (Editor), Peter Forshaw (Editor)
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan (July 10, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0230507077
ISBN-13: 978-0230507074
Book Description
This book explores the impact of biblical reading practices on scientific thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Looking beyond the canonical figures of science and exploring the full European stage, the collection addresses the presuption that natural philosophers forged their new sciences despite rather than because of the pervasive bible-centeredness of early modern thought. The essays engage iwth long-running debates ofer religion and science, and the supposition that scriptural exegesis was a hindrance rather than a catalyst to science.
About the Author
KEVIN KILLEEN is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Reading, UK, and writes on Early Modern Religion and the History of Ideas. PETER J. FORSHAW is a lecturer and British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and researches Early Modern Magic, Science and Religion, as well as teaching Renaissance Literature.
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