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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2014
      15 May 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107589018
      9781107664463
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107589018
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 576 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, History, History of Science: General Interest, General
      Series:
      Canto Classics
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, History, History of Science: General Interest, General
    Series:
    Canto Classics
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    John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods of crisis when new science has threatened established authority. The trial of Galileo in 1633 and the uproar caused by Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) are two of the most famous examples. Taking account of recent scholarship in the history of science, Brooke takes a fresh look at these and similar episodes, showing that science and religion have been mutually relevant in so rich a variety of ways that no simple generalizations are possible.

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    ‘[John Hedley Brooke] has given us a brilliant, perceptive, subtle, nuanced analysis, which will permanently alter the way scholars and the informed lay public view the relations of science and religion.'

    David C. Lindberg Source: Metascience

    ‘… arguably the most important historical analysis of science and religion since Andrew Dickson White's History of the Warfare of Science and Theology in Christendom (1898).'

    Ronald L. Numbers Source: Metascience

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