Galileo Goes To Jail And Other Myths About Science And Religion
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA; London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780674057418
Copyright date: 2009
Notes: A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
Table of contents: title: That the rise of Christianity was responsible for the demise of ancient science / David C. Lindberg; title: That the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of science / Michael H. Shank; title: That medieval Christians taught that the earth was flat / Lesley B. Cormack; title: That medieval Islamic culture was inhospitable to science / Syed Nomanul Haq; title: That the medieval church prohibited human dissection / Katharine Park; title: That Copernicanism demoted humans from the center of the cosmos / Dennis R. Danielson; title: That Giordano Bruno was the first martyr of modern science / Jole Shackelford; title: That Galileo was imprisoned and tortured for advocating Copernicanism / Maurice A. Finocchiaro; title: That Christianity gave birth to modern science / Noah J. Efron; title: That the scientific revolution liberated science from religion / Margaret J. Osler; title: That Catholics did not contribute to the scientific revolution / Lawrence M. Principe; title: That René Descartes originated the mind-body distinction / Peter Harrison; title: That Isaac Newton's mechanistic cosmology eliminated the need for God / Edward B. Davis; title: That the church denounced anesthesia in childbirth on biblical grounds / Rennie B. Schoepflin; title: That the theory of organic evolution is based on circular reasoning / Nicolaas A. Rupke; title: That evolution destroyed Darwin's faith in Christianity : until he reconverted on his deathbed / James Moore; title: That Huxley defeated Wilberforce in their debate over evolution and religion / David N. Livingstone; title: That Darwin destroyed natural theology / Jon H. Roberts; title: That Darwin and Haeckel were complicit in Nazi biology / Robert J. Richards; title: That the Scopes trial ended in defeat for antievolutionism / Edward J. Larson; title: That Einstein believed in a personal God / Matthew Stanley; title: That Quantum physics demonstrated the doctrine of free will / Daniel Patrick Thurs; title: That "intelligent design" represents a scientific challenge to evolution / Michael Ruse; title: That creationism is a uniquely American phenomenon / Ronald L. Numbers; title: That modern science has secularized Western culture / John Hedley Brooke