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Time traveling with science and the saints / George A. Erickson.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Erickson, George, 1932-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003.
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Religion and science > History.
Science > History.
Religion and science.
Science.
History.

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505 0 0 |t Notes --  |t Preface --  |t Timeline --  |t Introduction --  |g ch. 1.  |t Giordano Bruno --  |t Giordano becomes a heretic --  |t Patrons --  |t Imprisonment, trial, and death --  |t Religious extremism persists --  |g ch. 2.  |t In the beginning --  |t The roots of religion --  |t Progress with copper, bronze, and iron --  |t Thales adds mathematics to the science of astronomy --  |t Pythagoras and Aristotle --  |t Epicurus sows the seeds of humanism --  |t The solar system --  |t The great libraries --  |g ch. 3.  |t The onslaught begins --  |t The church opposes education --  |t Christianity empowered --  |t The church becomes antisex --  |t fictional saints --  |t The earth is flat --  |t Roger Bacon --  |t The earth is round --  |t The church becomes wealthy --  |t The crusades --  |t The inquisition --  |g ch. 4.  |t The Dark Ages yield to a glimmer of light --  |t The church and medicine --  |t The holy touch --  |t The plagues --  |t Islamic and Jewish medicine --  |t The witch-hunts --  |t Leonardo da Vinci --  |t Alchemy and chemistry --  |g ch. 5.  |t The rebirth of science --  |t Commerce rebounds --  |t A sun-centered universe --  |t Galileo's challenge --  |t Newton and the year of miracles --  |g ch. 6.  |t Science ascendant --  |t The enlightenment --  |t Diderot's encyclopedia --  |t Edward Gibbon --  |t Joseph Priestly --  |t Chemistry hall of fame --  |t Thermodynamics and glaciers --  |t Darwin's vision --  |t Science and education in America --  |t Science begins to prevail --  |t Medicine gets modern --  |t Michael Faraday -- boy genius --  |g ch. 7.  |t Modern times --  |t Geology comes of age --  |t The twentieth-century Vatican --  |t Ethnic cleansing (religious warfare) --  |t Superstition persists --  |t The real heroes --  |t Afterword --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index. 
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