The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521591966)

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. The rise of modern science is linked to the Protestant approach to texts, an approach that spelled an end to the symbolic world of the Middle Ages, and established the conditions for the scientific investigation and technological exploitation of nature.

Author: Peter Harrison
ISBN-10: 0521591961
ISBN-13: 9780521591966
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/05/1998
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.04w x 1.06d