Galileo goes to jail : and other myths about science and religion /

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Numbers, Ronald L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Science > History. Scientists > History. Religion and science > History. Religion and state > History.

Table of Contents:

That the rise of Christianity was responsible for the demise of ancient science / David C. Lindberg
That the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of science / Michael H. Shank
That medieval Christians taught that the earth was flat / Lesley B. Cormack
That medieval Islamic culture was inhospitable to science / Syed Nomanul Haq
That the medieval church prohibited human dissection / Katharine Park
That Copernicanism demoted humans from the center of the cosmos / Dennis R. Danielson
That Giordano Bruno was the first martyr of modern science / Jole Shackelford
That Galileo was imprisoned and tortured for advocating Copernicanism / Maurice A. Finocchiaro
That Christianity gave birth to modern science / Noah J. Efron
That the scienfitic revolution liberated science from religion / Margaret J. Osler
That Catholics did not contribute to the scientific revolution / Lawrence M. Principe
That Ren⥠Descartes originated the mind-body distinction / Peter Harrison
That Isaac Newton's mechanistic cosmology eliminated the need for God / Edward B. Davis
That the church denounced anesthesia in childbirth on biblical grounds / Rennie B. Schoepflin
That the theory of organic evolution is based on circular reasoning / Nicolaas A. Rupke
That evolution destroyed Darwin's faith in Christianity : until he reconverted on his deathbed / James Moore
That Huxley defeated Wilberforce in their debate over evolution and religion / David N. Livingstone
That Darwin destroyed natural theology / Jon H. Roberts
That Darwin and Haeckel were complicit in Nazi biology / Robert J. Richards
That the Scopes trial ended in defeat for antievolutionism / Edward J. Larson
That Einstein believed in a personal God / Matthew Stanley
That Quantum physics demonstrated the doctrine of free will / Daniel Patrick Thurs
That "intelligent design" represents a scientific challenge to evolution / Michael Ruse
That creationism is a uniquely American phenomenon / Ronald L. Numbers
That modern science has secularized Western culture / John Hedley Brooke.

Galileo goes to jail : and other myths about science and religion /

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