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  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.
An examination of the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science.| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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1 | (10) |
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Worlds visible and invisible |
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11 | (23) |
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11 | (4) |
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15 | (13) |
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28 | (6) |
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Sensible signs and spoken words |
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34 | (30) |
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The ascendency of the physical |
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34 | (5) |
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39 | (5) |
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Reading nature: the whole and the parts |
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44 | (12) |
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Restoring lost likenesses |
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56 | (8) |
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64 | (57) |
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Aristotle and the encyclopaedias |
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64 | (14) |
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Texts and the empirical world |
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78 | (4) |
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82 | (10) |
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Corrupt texts and reformed religion |
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92 | (15) |
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The literal sense and the material world |
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107 | (14) |
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121 | (40) |
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121 | (8) |
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Modifications of the literal: typology and accommodation |
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129 | (9) |
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138 | (9) |
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The science of the last things |
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147 | (14) |
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161 | (44) |
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161 | (8) |
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Divine designs and human utilities |
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169 | (8) |
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The centre of the universe |
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177 | (8) |
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The natural world and the moral order |
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185 | (8) |
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God and the book of nature |
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193 | (12) |
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205 | (61) |
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205 | (6) |
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211 | (11) |
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The deluge and confusion of tongues |
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222 | (4) |
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226 | (9) |
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235 | (14) |
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Learning the language of nature |
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249 | (17) |
| Conclusion |
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266 | (8) |
| References |
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274 | (32) |
| Index |
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