Myth and the mechanistic universe
Subtitle: an essay in the comparative study of religions
By: James Eric Lane
Publisher: Davies Group, Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Aurora, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781934542286
Subjects: Religion and science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient symbolic forms; title: Myth and "metaphysics"; title: Secret of the state; title: Ritual enactment of the world; title: Historiography of astronomy in ancient China; title: Myth and astronomy in ancient China; title: Christian myth and knowledge; title: Religious forms and physical science in the modern world; title: New myth of proportion, numbers, and precision; title: Galileo's science of local motion; title: New myth of magic and power; title: Mechanistic universe; title: Religious forms and physical science; title: Religious forms and history; title: Myth and the technicalist world; title: From cosmos to history; title: Myth and the mechanistic universe.