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The Bible, Protestantism, and the rise of natural science

Peter 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.
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998
History
xi, 313 pages ; 24 cm
9780521591966, 9780521000963, 0521591961, 0521000963
36977216
Worlds visible and invisible
Sensible signs and spoken words
The two reformations
Re-reading the two books
The purpose of nature
Eden restored