Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century

Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 442
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ISBN-10 : 0691024251
ISBN-13 : 9780691024257
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Download or read book Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century written by Amos Funkenstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "(This work) promises to raise the level and transform the nature of discourse on the relations of Christianity and science . . . (Funkenstein) leaps fearlessly from one philosophical mountaintop to another, comparing and contrasting doctrines in an amazing display of intellectual dexterity. The result is a bold study of ideas . . . bristling with insight and perceptive reinterpretation of familiar episodes in the history of natural philosophy".--David C. Lindberg, "Journal of the History of Medicine". *Lightning Print On Demand Title


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