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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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (520 p.) :; 23 halftones, 38 line illustrations, 13 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- 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