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050 00 $aBL240$b.H76 2002
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100 1 $aHowell, Kenneth J.$q(Kenneth James)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no89002233
245 10 $aGod's two books :$bCopernican cosmology and biblical interpretation in early modern science /$cKenneth J. Howell.
260 $aNotre Dame, Ind. :$bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $aviii, 319 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Early Modern Science and Biblical Interpretation --$gCh. 1.$tReading the Heavens and Scripture in Early Modern Science --$gCh. 2.$tCopernicus, the Bible, and the Wittenberg Orbit --$gCh. 3.$tGeoheliocentrism and the Bible: Brahe, Peucer, and Rothmann --$gCh. 4.$tKepler, Cosmology, and the Bible --$gCh. 5.$tCopernican Cosmology, Cartesianism, and the Bible in the Netherlands --$gCh. 6.$tCopernicanism and the Bible in Catholic Europe --$tConclusion: Interpreting the History of Early Modern Cosmology and the Bible.
520 1 $a"How do we resolve conflicts when fundamental sources of knowledge and belief - such as science and theology - are involved? In God's Two Books, Kenneth Howell offers a historical analysis of how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century astronomers and theologians in Northern Protestant Europe used science and religion to challenge and support one another.
520 8 $aHowell reveals that the cosmological schemes developed during this era remain monumental solutions to the enduring problem of how theological interpretation and empirical investigation interact with one another.".
520 8 $a"The central argument of this compelling book is that the use of the Bible in early modern cosmology is considerably more complex and subtle than has previously been recognized. Drawing on the writings of Lutheran and Calvinist astronomers, natural philosophers, and theologians, Howell analyzes several underlying patterns of interpretation which affected how these historical figures viewed the mutual interaction of the books of nature and Scripture.
520 8 $aHe argues that while they differed on how the disciplines of astronomy, physics, and theology should relate to one another, most thinkers shared the common goal of finding and explaining the true system of the universe."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aReligion and science.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112579
852 00 $bglx$hBL240$i.H76 2002