Description: When Science and Christianity MeetAuthor(s): David C. Lindberg Format: Hardback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226482149, 978-0226482149 Synopsis This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local [url] the events treated in "When Science and Christianity Meet" are the Galileo affair, the seventeenth-century clockwork universe, Noah's ark and the biblical flood in the development of natural history, struggles over Darwinian evolution, debates about the origin of the human species, and the Scopes trial. Readers will be introduced to St. Augustine, Roger Bacon, Pope Urban VIII, Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Sigmund Freud, and many other participants in the historical drama of science and Christianity.
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Book Title: When Science and Christianity Meet
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: When Science and Christianity Meet
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2003
Subject: Science
Item Height: 236 mm
Item Weight: 708 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Ronald L. Numbers, David C. Lindberg
Item Width: 168 mm
Format: Hardcover
