Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-926897-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 688 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of European history, history of ideas, history of religious thought, history of science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brooke, John

Maclean, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Ian Maclean: Heterodoxy in Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Pietro Pomponazzi, Guglielmo Gratarolo, Girolamo Cardano

- 2: David Wootton: John Donne's Religion of Love

- 3: Nicholas S. Davidson: `Le plus beau et le plus meschant esprit que ie aye cogneu': Science and Religion in the Writings of Giulio Cesare Vanini, 1585-1619

- 4: Christoph Luthy: Heresies, Facts, and the Travails of the Republic of Letters: Explanations of the Eucharist

- 5: William Carroll: Galileo Galilei and the Myth of Heterodoxy

- 6: Tabitta van Nouhuys: Copernicanism, Jansenism, and Remonstrantism in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

- 7: Margaret Osler: When did Pierre Gassendi become a Libertine?

- 8: Cees Leijenhorst: Thomas Hobbes, Heresy, and Corporeal Deity

- 9: Stephen D. Snobolen: `The true frame of Nature': Isaac Newton, Heresy, and the Reformation of Natural Philosophy

- 10: Scott Mandelbrote: The Heterodox Career of Nicolas Fatio de Duillier

- 11: David Boyd Haycock: `Claiming Him as her son': William Stukeley, Isaac Newton, and the Archaeology of the Trinity

- 12: John Brooke: Joining Natural Philosophy to Christianity: The Case of Joseph Priestley

Über Autor(innen)

John Brooke is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, Oxford University.

Ian Maclean is Professor of Renaissance Studies, Oxford University, and Senior Research Fellow, All Souls.