Science and Religion, 14501900 - From Copernicus to Darwin

Informationen zum Autor Richard G. Olson is a professor of history at Harvey Mudd College. He is the author of The Emergence of the Social Sciences, 1642–1792 (Twayne Press, 1993) and Science Deified and Science Defied (University of California Press, 1990). Klappentext This book explores the interactions between science and religion by focusing on a sequence of major religious and intellectual movements. Zusammenfassung Explores the many ways in which religion - its ideas! attitudes! practices! and institutions - interacted with science from the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution to the end of the nineteenth century. This work explores those interactions by focusing on a sequence of major religious and intellectual movements.

Product details

• Authors: Richard G Olson, Richard G. Olson, Richard G. (Harvey Mudd College) Olson
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2006
• EAN: 9780801884009
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8400-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Geschichte der Religion, SCIENCE / History, RELIGION / History, Science, RELIGION / Religion & Science