Science and Spirituality: The Volatile Connection. - KNIGHT , DAVID
The Volatile Connection
KORTE INHOUD
Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God. By the twenty-first century this comforting certainty has almost vanished. What caused such a cataclysmic change in attitudes to science and to the world? Science and Spirituality offers a new history of the interaction between Western science and faith, which explores their volatile connection, and challenges the myth of their being locked in inevitable conflict. Journeying from the French Revolution to the present day, and taking in such figures as Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Charles Darwin, Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, Mary Shelley and Stephen Hawking, David Knight shows how science evolved from medieval and Renaissance forms of natural theology into the empirical discipline we know today. Focusing on the overthrow of Church and State in revolutionary France, and on the crucial nineteenth century period when a newly emerging scientific community rende...
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Original publisher's sewn gray paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: viij, 232pp. Very fine copy - as new. London-New York, Routledge [Taylor & Francis Group]. 2003 [Auteur: KNIGHT , DAVID] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: Science and Spirituality: The Volatile Connection.]
