Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

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WRESTLING WITH NATURE From Omens to Science Edited by Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank The University of ...

Peter Harrison is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, director of the Ian Ramsey C ...

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vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 9 Francesca Rochberg 2 Natural Knowledge in the ...

viii Contents 9 Science and Technology 225 Ronald R. Kline 10 Science and Religion 253 Jon H. Roberts 11 Science, Pseudoscience, ...

ix This book has benefi ted immensely from the generous advice of Thomas H. Broman, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Joan Cadden ...

x Acknowledgments distinguished career as the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science at Madison. His scholarship is well k ...

1 One of the biggest gaps in the history of science is the paucity of studies of the history of the meanings of “science” and ot ...

2 Introduction the bold claim that the history of science is “the only history which can illustrate the progress of mankind.”^2 ...

Introduction 3 time in the nineteenth century and was only fully accepted in the early twentieth.^5 Pushing the lexicographical ...

4 Introduction philosophy,” “medicine,” “mixed mathematics,” and other activities con- cerned with the study of nature. One of o ...

Introduction 5 East, the classical world of ancient Greece and Rome, the Islamic Middle Ages, and the Latin Middle Ages. These c ...

6 Introduction religion, and science and pseudoscience. Our intention with chapters 10 and 11 is to give particular consideratio ...

Introduction 7 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1952), xiv. Some of Sarton’s contemporaries demurred from this vision. S ...

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9 In the ancient Near East, long before the Greeks’ earliest forays into the causes of natural phenomena, what we now call scien ...