The great rift : literacy, numeracy, and the religion-science divide /

In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin of this diffe...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hobart, Michael E., 1944- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Sujets:
Religion and science > History.
Numeration > History.
Mathematics > History.
Mathematics, Medieval.
Science, Renaissance.
Signs and symbols > History.
Religion et sciences > Histoire.
Mathématiques > Histoire.
Mathématiques médiévales.
Sciences de la Renaissance.
Signes et symboles > Histoire.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
HISTORY / Renaissance
Mathematics
Mathematics, Medieval
Numeration
Religion and science
Science, Renaissance
Signs and symbols
Electronic books.
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • A world of words and things
  • Demonstrable common sense: pre-modern science
  • Early numeracy and the classifying of mathematics
  • Thing mathematics: the medieval quadrivium
  • Arithmetic: Hindu-Arabic numbers and the rise of commerce
  • Music: taming time, tempering tone
  • Geometry: the illusions of perspective and proportion
  • Astronomy: the technologies of time
  • The moment of modern science
  • The birth of analysis
  • Toward the mathematization of matter
  • Demonstrations and narrations: the doctrine of two truths.

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