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The Warfare Between Science and Religion: The Idea That Wouldn't Die
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Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives
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Science, Technology & Society in Seventeenth Century England
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Theology and the Scientific Imagination
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The Empirical Stance
by Bas van Fraassen
The best books on The History of Science and Religion, recommended by Peter Harrison
The best books on The History of Science and Religion, recommended by Peter Harrison
Have science and religion been fundamentally at war throughout history? Are they incompatible? Has religion always held back scientific progress? These views may seem intuitive but few historians would defend them. Professor Peter Harrison looks at the complexity of science-religion interactions, including the cases of Galileo and Darwin, and considers how we frame the debate.
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The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature
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The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece
by Geoffrey Lloyd & Nathan Sivin -
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The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India, 1450–1700
by Jonardon Ganeri -
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Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution
by William Newman -
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Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy
by Scott L. Pratt
The best books on The History of Philosophy, recommended by Justin E. H. Smith
The best books on The History of Philosophy, recommended by Justin E. H. Smith
Today, we think of scientists and philosophers as distinct, but it wasn’t always this way. Back when the Royal Society was founded in the 1660s, figures like Newton, Descartes and Boyle all thought of themselves as ‘natural philosophers’. Justin E. H. Smith, professor of philosophy at the Université de Paris, introduces us to what he sees as the real history of philosophy.
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Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
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A Concise History of Mathematics
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The History of Mathematics: A Reader
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The Mathematical Pamphlets of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Related Pieces
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Mathematical Models
by H. M. Cundy and A. P. Rollett.
The best books on The History of Mathematics, recommended by Robin Wilson
The best books on The History of Mathematics, recommended by Robin Wilson
Why should we be interested in the history of mathematics? Mathematics, like painting, music, literature, has a long history, says Robin Wilson. Indeed, it’s longer than most, since the first writing is believed to be numerical. Mathematics is also multicultural, with its historical origins in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.