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The Bible, Protestantism, and the rise of natural science

Author: Peter Harrison
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series: ISSR Library.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Peter Harrison examines the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science. He shows how both the contents of the Bible, and more particularly the way it was interpreted, had a profound  Read more...

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Genre/Form: History
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Harrison
ISBN: 0521591961 9780521591966 0521000963 9780521000963
OCLC Number: 36977216
Description: xi, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Worlds visible and invisible --
Sensible signs and spoken words --
The two reformations --
Re-reading the two books --
The purpose of nature --
Eden restored.
Series Title: ISSR Library.
Responsibility: Peter Harrison.
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<http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh85107721<\/a>> # Protestantism--History<\/span>\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0a \nschema:Intangible<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:name<\/a> \"Protestantism--History<\/span>\"@en<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0.\n\n\n<\/div>\n
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<http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1108176<\/a>> # Science<\/span>\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0a \nschema:Intangible<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:name<\/a> \"Science<\/span>\"@en<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0.\n\n\n<\/div>\n
<http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/831219<\/a>> # Bible and science<\/span>\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0a \nschema:Intangible<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:name<\/a> \"Bible and science<\/span>\"@en<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0.\n\n\n<\/div>\n
<http:\/\/viaf.org\/viaf\/111537593<\/a>> # Peter Harrison<\/span>\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0a \nschema:Person<\/a> ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:birthDate<\/a> \"1955<\/span>\" ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:familyName<\/a> \"Harrison<\/span>\" ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:givenName<\/a> \"Peter<\/span>\" ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\nschema:name<\/a> \"Peter Harrison<\/span>\" ;\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0.\n\n\n<\/div>\n
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