Science in theistic contexts
Subtitle: cognitive dimensions
By: edited by John Hedley Brooke, Margaret J. Osler, and Jitse M. van der Meer.
Contributors: Brooke, John Hedley.; Osler, Margaret J., 1942-; Meer, Jitse M. van der.
Series: Osiris : a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences -- 2nd ser., v. 16; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) -- 2nd ser., v. 16.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Religion and science; Science -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Religious belief and the content of the sciences -- J.H. Brooke; title: Religious beliefs, metaphysical beliefs, and historiography of science -- S.J. Wykstra; title: Freeing astronomy from philosophy: an aspect of Islamic influence on science -- F.J. Ragep; title: Astronomical exegesis: an early modern Jewish interpretation of the heavens -- N.J. Efron and M. Fisch; title: Theological foundations of Kepler's astronomy -- P. Barker and B.R. Goldstein; title: Science, religion, and the historiography of the Galileo affair: on the undesirability of oversimplification -- M.A. Finocchiaro; title: Divine artifice and natural mechanism: Robert Boyle's mechanical philosophy of nature -- M.G. Cook; title: Whose ends? Teleology in early modern natural philosophy -- M.J. Osler; title: "God of gods and Lord of lords": the theology of Isaac Newton's General Scholium to the Principia -- S.D. Snobelen; title: Astronomy and religion (1780-1915): four case studies involving ideas of extraterrestrial life -- M.J. Crowe; title: Science in theistic contexts: a case study of Alfred Russel Wallace on human evolution -- M. Fichman -- "The; title: Sense of sublimity": Darwin on nature and divinity -- P.R. Sloan; title: Natural selection, teleology, and the logos: from Darwin to the Oxford neo-Darwinists, 1859-1909 -- R. England -- The; title: psychology of the emotions in Britain and America in the nineteenth century: the role of religious and antireligious commitments -- T. Dixon; title: Quaker responses to Darwin -- G. Cantor; title: Victorian sciences and religions: discordant harmonies-- B. Lightman.