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The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

Hardcover

Religion General General ChristianityHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0521591961
ISBN13: 9780521591966
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Mar 5 1998
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.39
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.56
Language: English
Peter Harrison examines the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science. He shows how both the contents of the Bible, and more particularly the way it was interpreted, had a profound influence on conceptions of nature from the third century to the seventeenth. The rise of modern science is linked to the Protestant approach to texts, an approach that spelled an end to the symbolic world of the Middle Ages, and established the conditions for the scientific investigation and technological exploitation of nature.

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