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A Comprehensible Universe The Interplay of Science and Theology /

Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The inquiry into the rationality of the world began over two-and-a-half-thousand years ago, when a few courageous people tried t...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Coyne, George V. (Auteur), Heller, Michael (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Édition:1st ed. 2008.
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Accès en ligne:Texto Completo
Table des matières:
  • The Drama of Rationality
  • Discovery that the World is Rational
  • Should the Astronomer Look into the Sky?
  • Seven Fighters against Thebes
  • How to Count the Grains of Sand
  • Is the World Rational?
  • The Input of Christianity
  • Christianity on the Scene
  • Theology and Science in the Epoch of the Church Fathers
  • The Medieval Contribution
  • Discovery of the Method
  • Achilles and the Arrow
  • The Dynamics of Aristotle
  • Three Generations: From Tartaglia to Galileo
  • Birth of the Method
  • Is the World Mathematical?
  • Mathematics at Work
  • Afterthoughts
  • Afterthoughts.