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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2009
      March 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511598524
      9780521473477
      9780521030465
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511598524
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.528kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.411kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (34)
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    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (34)
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    This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for transforming traditional university natural philosophy into a specifically Lutheran one. Motivated by desire to check civil disobedience and promote a Lutheran orthodoxy, he created a natural philosophy based on Aristotle, Galen and Plato, incorporating contemporary findings of Copernicus and Vesalius. The fields of astrology, anatomy, botany and mathematics all constituted a natural philosophy in which Melanchthon wished to demonstrate God's Providential design in the physical world. Rather than dichotomizing or synthesizing the two distinct areas of 'science' and 'religion', Kusukawa advocates the need to look at 'Natural philosophy' as a discipline quite different from either 'modern science' or 'religion': a contextual assessment of the implication of the Lutheran Reformation on university education, particularly on natural philosophy.

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    ‘… Kusukawa’s book and her analysis of Melanchthon’s thought offer a valuable contribution to our understanding of the influence of the Reformation.’

    Source: British Journal for the History of Science

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