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Science and religion, 1450-1900 : from Copernicus to Darwin
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Science and religion, 1450-1900 : from Copernicus to Darwin

Author: Richard Olson
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Series: Greenwood guides to science and religion.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Explores how religion, its ideas, attitudes, practices, and institutions, interacted with science from the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution to the end of the nineteenth century.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Olson
ISBN: 0313326940 9780313326943
OCLC Number: 55008243
Description: xxvii, 292 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction : Galileo and the church--or, How do science and religion interact? --
Religion and the transition to "modern" science : Christian demands for useful knowledge --
Science and Catholicism in the scientific revolution, 1550-1770 --
Science and religion in England, 1590-1740 --
Newton's religion, Newtonian religions, and eighteenth-century reactions --
Scientific understandings of religion and religious understandings of science, 1700-1859 --
Back to the beginnings--of the earth, of life, and of humankind, 1680-1859 --
What to do about Darwin?
Series Title: Greenwood guides to science and religion.
Responsibility: Richard G. Olson.
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Explores how religion, its ideas, attitudes, practices, and institutions, interacted with science from the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution to the end of the nineteenth century.

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