Authors: Ronald L. Numbers
ISBN-13: 9780674057418, ISBN-10: 0674057414
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: November 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has served as president of the History of Science Society, the American Society of Church History, and the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, Division of the History of Science and Technology.
Myth 2. That the Medieval Christian Church Suppressed the Growth of Science
Myth 3. That Medieval Christians Taught That the Earth Was Flat
Myth 4. That Medieval Islamic Culture Was Inhospitable to Science
Myth 12. That René Descartes Originated the Mind- Body Distinction
Myth 16. That Evolution Destroyed Darwin's Faith in Christianity—Until He Reconverted on His Deathbed
Myth 21. That Einstein Believed in a Personal God
Myth 25. That Modern Science Has Secularized Western Culture
The volume's careful organization and execution reveal the kind of planning and teamwork absent from too many edited collections, but which have come to be expected from Numbers...Each chapter of Galileo Goes to Jail begins with two or three epigraphs that clearly convict scholarly and popular literature of perpetuating the myth in question. Most authors then explore the nuances of the myth, its origin, complexity, and longevity, before telling the "rest of the story."
Ronald L. Numbers
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Lesley B. Cormack
S. Nomanul Haq
Katharine Park
Dennis R. Danielson
Jole Shackelford
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Noah Efron
Margaret J. Osler
Lawrence Principe
Peter Harrison
Edward Davis
Rennie B. Schoepflin
Nicolaas A. Rupke
James Moore
David N. Livingstone
Jon H. Roberts
Robert J. Richards
Edward J. Larson
Matthew Stanley
Daniel P. Thurs
Michael Ruse
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