The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

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 that spelled an end to the symbolic world of the Middle Ages, and established the conditions for the scientific investigation and technological exploitation of nature.

Author: Peter Harrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/03/1998
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.04w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780521591966

About the Author
Harrison, Peter: - Peter Harrison is Professor of Philosophy at Bond University in Australia. He has published widely in the area of the history of ideas and in particular on philosophy and religion in the early modern period. He is the author of Religion and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990).

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