The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

Peter Harrison (Bond University, Queensland)

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
26 July 2001
Pages
328
ISBN
9780521000963

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

Peter Harrison (Bond University, Queensland)

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 which spelt an end to the symbolic world of the Middle Ages and established the conditions for the scientific investigation and technological exploitation of nature.

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