The Great Rift : : Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide / / Michael E. Hobart.
In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin of this diffe...
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Hobart, Michael E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Great Rift : Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide / Michael E. Hobart. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (520 p.) : 23 halftones, 38 line illustrations, 13 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rift Between Science and Religion -- Part I. A Prayer and a Theory: The Classifying Temper -- Religio and Scientia -- A World of Words and Things -- Demonstrable Common Sense: Premodern science -- Part II. From the "Imagination Mathematical" to the Threshold of Analysis -- Teeming Things and Empty Relations -- Early Numeracy and the Classifying of Mathematics -- Thing-Mathematics: The Medieval Quadrivium -- Arithmetic: Hindu-Arabic Numbers and the Rise of Commerce -- Music Taming Time, Tempering Tone -- Geometry: The Illusions of Perspective and Proportion -- Astronomy: The Technologies of Time -- Part III. Galileo and the Analytical Temper -- The Moment of Modern Science -- The Birth of Analysis -- Toward the Mathematization of Matter -- Demonstrations and Narrations: The Doctrine of Two Truths -- Epilogue: The Great Rift Today -- Appendixes -- Illustration Credits -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin of this difference in the work of Renaissance thinkers who invented a revolutionary mathematical system-relational numeracy. By creating meaning through numbers and abstract symbols rather than words, relational numeracy allowed inquisitive minds to vault beyond the constraints of language and explore the natural world with a fresh interpretive vision. The Great Rift is the first book to examine the religion-science divide through the history of information technology. Hobart follows numeracy as it emerged from the practical counting systems of merchants, the abstract notations of musicians, the linear perspective of artists, and the calendars and clocks of astronomers. As the technology of the alphabet and of mere counting gave way to abstract symbols, the earlier "thing-mathematics" metamorphosed into the relational mathematics of modern scientific investigation. Using these new information symbols, Galileo and his contemporaries mathematized motion and matter, separating the demonstrations of science from the linguistic logic of religious narration. Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that opened new windows onto nature. In so doing, he connects the cognitive breakthroughs of the past with intellectual debates ongoing in the twenty-first century. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) HISTORY / Renaissance. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606621 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674985186?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674985186 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674985186.jpg |
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Hobart, Michael E., Hobart, Michael E., The Great Rift : Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rift Between Science and Religion -- Part I. A Prayer and a Theory: The Classifying Temper -- Religio and Scientia -- A World of Words and Things -- Demonstrable Common Sense: Premodern science -- Part II. From the "Imagination Mathematical" to the Threshold of Analysis -- Teeming Things and Empty Relations -- Early Numeracy and the Classifying of Mathematics -- Thing-Mathematics: The Medieval Quadrivium -- Arithmetic: Hindu-Arabic Numbers and the Rise of Commerce -- Music Taming Time, Tempering Tone -- Geometry: The Illusions of Perspective and Proportion -- Astronomy: The Technologies of Time -- Part III. Galileo and the Analytical Temper -- The Moment of Modern Science -- The Birth of Analysis -- Toward the Mathematization of Matter -- Demonstrations and Narrations: The Doctrine of Two Truths -- Epilogue: The Great Rift Today -- Appendixes -- Illustration Credits -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rift Between Science and Religion -- Part I. A Prayer and a Theory: The Classifying Temper -- Religio and Scientia -- A World of Words and Things -- Demonstrable Common Sense: Premodern science -- Part II. From the "Imagination Mathematical" to the Threshold of Analysis -- Teeming Things and Empty Relations -- Early Numeracy and the Classifying of Mathematics -- Thing-Mathematics: The Medieval Quadrivium -- Arithmetic: Hindu-Arabic Numbers and the Rise of Commerce -- Music Taming Time, Tempering Tone -- Geometry: The Illusions of Perspective and Proportion -- Astronomy: The Technologies of Time -- Part III. Galileo and the Analytical Temper -- The Moment of Modern Science -- The Birth of Analysis -- Toward the Mathematization of Matter -- Demonstrations and Narrations: The Doctrine of Two Truths -- Epilogue: The Great Rift Today -- Appendixes -- Illustration Credits -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rift Between Science and Religion -- Part I. A Prayer and a Theory: The Classifying Temper -- Religio and Scientia -- A World of Words and Things -- Demonstrable Common Sense: Premodern science -- Part II. From the "Imagination Mathematical" to the Threshold of Analysis -- Teeming Things and Empty Relations -- Early Numeracy and the Classifying of Mathematics -- Thing-Mathematics: The Medieval Quadrivium -- Arithmetic: Hindu-Arabic Numbers and the Rise of Commerce -- Music Taming Time, Tempering Tone -- Geometry: The Illusions of Perspective and Proportion -- Astronomy: The Technologies of Time -- Part III. Galileo and the Analytical Temper -- The Moment of Modern Science -- The Birth of Analysis -- Toward the Mathematization of Matter -- Demonstrations and Narrations: The Doctrine of Two Truths -- Epilogue: The Great Rift Today -- Appendixes -- Illustration Credits -- Notes -- Index |
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