Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion by Numbers, Ronald L.
Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion by Numbers, Ronald L.

Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a...
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Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion by Numbers, Ronald L.

Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

$90.60
Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion by Numbers, Ronald L.

Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

$90.60
Author: Ronald L. Numbers
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, Ronald Numbers suggests that we must first dispense with the hoary myths that have masqueraded too long as historical truths.

Until about the 1970s, the dominant narrative in the history of science had long been that of science triumphant, and science at war with religion. But a new generation of historians both of science and of the church began to examine episodes in the history of science and religion through the values and knowledge of the actors themselves. Now Ronald Numbers has recruited the leading scholars in this new history of science to -puncture the myths, from Galileo's incarceration to Darwin's deathbed conversion to Einstein's belief in a personal God who "didn't play dice with the universe." The picture of science and religion at each other's throats persists in mainstream media and scholarly journals, but each chapter in Galileo Goes to Jail shows how much we have to gain by seeing beyond the myths.

Author: Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 11/08/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780674057418

About the Author
Numbers, Ronald L.: - Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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