The word and the world [electronic resource] : biblical exegesis and early modern science / edited by Kevin Killeen and Peter J. Forshaw.
The Word and the World explores the significant impact of biblical reading practices on the scientific thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, engaging not only with canonical figures such as Bacon, Brahe or Galileo, but also with less well-know figures, including Bruno, Browne and Khunr...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The word and the world / Peter J. Forshaw and Kevin Killeen
- Reinterpreting nature in early modern Europe: natural philosophy, biblical exegesis and the contemplative life / Peter Harrison
- Making sense of science and the literal: modern semantics and early modern hermeneutics / James Dougal Fleming
- Reading the two books with Francis Bacon: interpreting God's will and pwer / Steven Matthews
- Textual criticism and early modern natural philosophy: the case of Marin Mersenne (1588-1648) / Paul R. Mueller
- Giordano Bruno's hermeneutics: observations on the Bible in De Monade (1591) / Leo Catana
- Vitriolic reactions: Orthodox responses to the alchemical exegesis of Genesis / Peter J. Forshaw
- Tycho the Prophet: history, astrology and the apocalypse in early modern science / Håkan Håkansson
- 'Whether the stars are innumerable for us?': astronomy and biblical exegesis in the Society of Jesus around 1600 / Volker R. Remmert
- Reading the book of God as the book of nature: the case of the Louvain humanist Cornelius Valerius (1512-78) / Irving A. Kelter
- Fortunes of Babel: technology, history, and Genesis 11:1-9 / Jonathan Sawday
- Duckweed and the word of God: seminal principles and creation in Thomas Browne / Kevin Killeen
- Days of the locust: natural history, politics, and the English Bible / Karen L. Edwards.