The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural ScienceCambridge University Press, 26. jul. 2001 - 313 sider In this book, Dr. Harrison examines the role played by the bible in the emergence of natural science. He shows how both the contents of the bible, and more particularly the way it was interpreted, had a profound influence on conceptions of nature from the third century to the seventeenth. The rise of modern science is linked to the Protestant approach to texts, an approach which spelt an end to the symbolic world of the middle ages, and established the conditions for the scientific investigation and technological exploitation of nature. |
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Peter Harrison. πάντα λόγον ὥσπερ ζῷον συνεσάναι A discourse should resemble a living creature Plato , Phaedrus , 2640 Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction I Worlds visible and invisible The.
Peter Harrison. πάντα λόγον ὥσπερ ζῷον συνεσάναι A discourse should resemble a living creature Plato , Phaedrus , 2640 Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction I Worlds visible and invisible The.
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... living creature was more important than its physical environment . Animals had a ' story ' , they were allocated meanings , they were emblems of important moral and theological truths , and like the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt they ...
... living creature was more important than its physical environment . Animals had a ' story ' , they were allocated meanings , they were emblems of important moral and theological truths , and like the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt they ...
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... living things represent an attempt to reconfigure a natural world which had been evacuated of order and meaning . It is commonly supposed that when in the early modern period individuals began to look at the world in different way ...
... living things represent an attempt to reconfigure a natural world which had been evacuated of order and meaning . It is commonly supposed that when in the early modern period individuals began to look at the world in different way ...
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Worlds visible and invisible | 11 |
THE THREE SENSES | 15 |
WORDS AND THINGS | 28 |
Sensible signs and spoken words | 34 |
THE DISCOVERY OF NATURE | 39 |
THE WHOLE AND THE PARTS | 44 |
RESTORING LOST LIKENESSES | 56 |
The two reformations | 64 |
The purpose of nature | 161 |
DIVINE DESIGNS AND HUMAN UTILITIES | 169 |
THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE | 177 |
THE NATURAL WORLD AND THE MORAL ORDER | 185 |
GOD AND THE BOOK OF NATURE | 193 |
Eden restored | 205 |
THE FALL | 211 |
THE DELUGE AND CONFUSION OF TONGUES | 222 |
TEXTS AND THE EMPIRICAL WORLD | 78 |
NEW WORLDS | 82 |
CORRUPT TEXTS AND REFORMED RELIGION | 92 |
THE LITERAL SENSE AND THE MATERIAL WORLD | 107 |
Rereading the two books | 121 |
TYPOLOGY AND ACCOMMODATION | 129 |
THE COSMOLOGY OF MOSES | 138 |
THE SCIENCE OF THE LAST THINGS | 147 |
REVERSING THE CURSE | 226 |
REPLANTING THE GARDEN | 235 |
LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE | 249 |
Conclusion | 266 |
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Adam allegorical ancient animals Aquinas argued Aristotle Augustine authority Bacon beasts Bible biblical body book of nature Boyle Burnet Christian Church Commentary creation creatures Deluge Derham Discourse divine doctrine earth Edwards English Epistle Dedicatory exegetes Franzius Galileo garden Genesis God's Hakewill heaven hermeneutical Hexameron Honorius Augustodunensis Hugh of St Ibid interpretation John knowledge Leibniz literal sense London Luther meaning medieval microcosm Middle Ages modern moral Moses natural history natural objects natural philosophy natural world Newton observed Origen original Paracelsus paradise Philo physical Physico-Theology Physiologus plants Platonic Pluche Protestant Protestant Reformation Pseudodoxia Epidemica Puritanism Reformation religion religious resurrection Robert Robert Boyle Robert Grosseteste sacred Samuel Hartlib scientific scripture serpent seventeenth century similitudes soul spiritual Stephen Switzer symbolic texts theological Theory things of nature Thomas thought tion tradition Treatise truths unicorn Webster Whiston William William of Auvergne Wisdom words writings wrote
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