The Great Rift / Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide - Michael E. Hobart
literacy, numeracy, and the religion-science divide
KORTE INHOUD
In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin of this difference in the work of Renaissance thinkers who invented a revolutionary mathematical system--relational numeracy. By creating meaning through numbers and abstract symbols rather than words, relational numeracy allowed inquisitive minds to vault beyond the constraints of language and explore the natural world with a fresh interpretive vision. The Great Rift is the first book to examine the religion-science divide through the history of information technology. Hobart follows numeracy as it emerged from the practical counting systems of merchants, the abstract notations of musicians, the linear perspective of artists, and the calendars and clocks of astronomers. As the technology of the alphabet and of mere counting ga...
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2018Uitgever: Harvard University Press506 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0674983637ISBN-13: 9780674983632Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2018, hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar [Auteur: Michael E. Hobart] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Harvard University Press] [Jaar: 2018] [Titel: The Great Rift / Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide]
