Heterodoxy in early modern science and religion / edited by John Brooke and Ian Maclean.

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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 373 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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1423753232
9781423753230
128075513X
9781280755132
0191556343
9780191556340

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Heterodoxy in early modern science and religion.DDC classification:

201/.65/0903 22

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BL240.3 .H48 2005eb

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Contents:

Heterodoxy in natural philosophy and medicine : Pietro Pomponazzi, Guglielmo Gratarolo, Girolamo Cardano / Ian Maclean -- John Donne's religion of love / David Wootton -- 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. Davidson -- The confessionalization of physics : heresies, facts, and the travails of the republic of letters / Christoph Lüthy -- Galileo Galilei and the myth of heterodoxy / William E. Carroll -- Copernicanism, Jansenism, and remonstrantism in the seventeenth-century Netherlands / Tabitta van Nouhuys -- When did Pierre Gassendi become a libertine? / Margaret J. Osler -- Hobbes, heresy, and corporeal deity / Cees Leijenhorst -- The true frame of nature : Isaac Newton, heresy, and the reformation of natural philosophy / Stephen D. Snobelen -- The heterodox career of Nicolas Fatio de Duillier / Scott Mandelbrote -- Claiming him as her son : William Stukeley, Isaac Newton, and the archaeology of the Trinity / David Boyd Haycock -- Joining natural philosophy to Christianity : the case of Joseph Priestley / John Brooke.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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