God's Two Books: Copernical Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science

ISBN-13: 9780268010454 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 328 str.

Kenneth J. Howell

Opis

This is an analysis of how 16th- and 17th-century astronomers and theologians in Northern Protestant Europe used science and religion to challenge and support one another. It argues that these schemes can solve the enduring problem of how theological interpretation and investigation interact.