Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

ISBN-10:
0199268975
ISBN-13:
9780199268979
Pub. Date:
01/19/2006
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0199268975
ISBN-13:
9780199268979
Pub. Date:
01/19/2006
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199268979
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/19/2006
Pages: 396
Product dimensions: 8.60(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Ian Maclean1. Heterodoxy in Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Pietro Pomponazzi, Guglielmo Gratarolo, Girolamo Cardano, Ian Maclean2. John Donne's Religion of Love, David Wootton3. ‘Le plus beau et le plus meschant esprit que ie aye cogneu': Science and Religion in the Writings of Giulio Cesare Vanini, 1585-1619, Nicholas S. Davidson4. Heresies, Facts, and the Travails of the Republic of Letters: Explanations of the Eucharist, Christoph Luthy5. Galileo Galilei and the Myth of Heterodoxy, William Carroll6. Copernicanism, Jansenism, and Remonstrantism in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands, Tabitta van Nouhuys7. When did Pierre Gassendi become a Libertine?, Margaret Osler8. Thomas Hobbes, Heresy, and Corporeal Deity, Cees Leijenhorst9. ‘The true frame of Nature': Isaac Newton, Heresy, and the Reformation of Natural Philosophy, Stephen D. Snobolen10. The Heterodox Career of Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Scott Mandelbrote11. ‘Claiming Him as her son': William Stukeley, Isaac Newton, and the Archaeology of the Trinity, David Boyd Haycock12. Joining Natural Philosophy to Christianity: The Case of Joseph Priestley, John Brooke
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