| Description |
177 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index. |
| Contents |
Giordano Bruno -- Giordano becomes a heretic -- Patrons -- Imprisonment, trial, and death -- Religious extremism persists -- In the beginning -- The roots of religion -- Progress with copper, bronze, and iron -- Thales adds mathematics to the science of astronomy -- Pythagoras and Aristotle -- Epicurus sows the seeds of humanism -- The solar system -- The great libraries -- The onslaught begins -- The church opposes education -- Christianity empowered -- The church becomes antisex -- fictional saints -- The earth is flat -- Roger Bacon -- The earth is round -- The church becomes wealthy -- The crusades -- The inquisition -- The Dark Ages yield to a glimmer of light -- The church and medicine -- The holy touch -- The plagues -- Islamic and Jewish medicine -- The witch-hunts -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Alchemy and chemistry -- The rebirth of science -- Commerce rebounds -- A sun-centered universe -- Galileo's challenge -- Newton and the year of miracles -- Science ascendant -- The enlightenment -- Diderot's encyclopedia -- Edward Gibbon -- Joseph Priestly -- Chemistry hall of fame -- Thermodynamics and glaciers -- Darwin's vision -- Science and education in America -- Science begins to prevail -- Medicine gets modern -- Michael Faraday : boy genius -- Modern times -- Geology comes of age -- The twentieth-century Vatican -- Ethnic cleansing (religious warfare) -- Superstition persists -- The real heroes -- Afterword. |
| Subject |
Religion and science -- History.
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Science -- History.
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| ISBN |
1591020352 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 247660965 |
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