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245 00 $aGalileo goes to jail :$band other myths about science and religion /$cedited by Ronald L. Numbers.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2009.
300 $ax, 302 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-284) and index.
505 00 $tThat the rise of Christianity was responsible for the demise of ancient science /$rDavid C. Lindberg --$tThat the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of science /$rMichael H. Shank --$tThat medieval Christians taught that the earth was flat /$rLesley B. Cormack --$tThat medieval Islamic culture was inhospitable to science /$rSyed Nomanul Haq --$tThat the medieval church prohibited human dissection /$rKatharine Park --$tThat Copernicanism demoted humans from the center of the cosmos /$rDennis R. Danielson --$tThat Giordano Bruno was the first martyr of modern science /$rJole Shackelford --$tThat Galileo was imprisoned and tortured for advocating Copernicanism /$rMaurice A. Finocchiaro --$tThat Christianity gave birth to modern science /$rNoah J. Efron --$tThat the scienfitic revolution liberated science from religion /$rMargaret J. Osler --$tThat Catholics did not contribute to the scientific revolution /$rLawrence M. Principe --$tThat René Descartes originated the mind-body distinction /$rPeter Harrison --$tThat Isaac Newton's mechanistic cosmology eliminated the need for God /$rEdward B. Davis --$tThat the church denounced anesthesia in childbirth on biblical grounds /$rRennie B. Schoepflin --$tThat the theory of organic evolution is based on circular reasoning /$rNicolaas A. Rupke --$tThat evolution destroyed Darwin's faith in Christianity : until he reconverted on his deathbed /$rJames Moore --$tThat Huxley defeated Wilberforce in their debate over evolution and religion /$rDavid N. Livingstone --$tThat Darwin destroyed natural theology /$rJon H. Roberts --$tThat Darwin and Haeckel were complicit in Nazi biology /$rRobert J. Richards --$tThat the Scopes trial ended in defeat for antievolutionism /$rEdward J. Larson --$tThat Einstein believed in a personal God /$rMatthew Stanley --$tThat Quantum physics demonstrated the doctrine of free will /$rDaniel Patrick Thurs --$tThat "intelligent design" represents a scientific challenge to evolution /$rMichael Ruse --$tThat creationism is a uniquely American phenomenon /$rRonald L. Numbers --$tThat modern science has secularized Western culture /$rJohn Hedley Brooke.
520 $aRonald Numbers has recruited the leading scholars in this new history of science to puncture the myths, from Galileo's incarceration to Darwin's deathbed conversion to Einstein's belief in a personal God who "didn't play dice with the universe." The picture of science and religion at each other's throats persists in mainstream media and scholarly journals, but each chapter in Galileo Goes to Jail shows how much we have to gain by seeing beyond the myths. --from publisher description
650 0 $aScience$xHistory.
650 0 $aScientists$xHistory.
650 0 $aReligion and science$xHistory.
650 0 $aReligion and state$xHistory.
700 1 $aNumbers, Ronald L.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0828/2008041250.html