Great Rift - Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide

Informationen zum Autor Michael E. Hobart Klappentext Michael Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that moved past language to open new windows onto the natural world. His work connects the cognitive breakthroughs of the past with intellectual debates ongoing in the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung Michael Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that moved past language to open new windows onto the natural world. His work connects the cognitive breakthroughs of the past with intellectual debates ongoing in the twenty-first century.

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• Authors: Michael E Hobart, Michael E. Hobart, Hobart Michael E.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780674983632
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98363-2
• No. of pages: 520
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); History of Ideas, European History, SCIENCE / History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / Religion & Science, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, History of Science, Archaeology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Religion and science, Religion & science, History and Archaeology, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE