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The Great Rift

The Great Rift PDF Author: Michael E. Hobart
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ISBN: 9780674985186
Category : BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Languages : en
Pages : 521

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Book Description
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rift between Science and Religion -- Part I. A Prayer and a Theory: The Classifying Temper -- Religio and Scientia -- 1. A World of Words and Things -- 2. Demonstrable Common Sense: Premodern Science -- Part II. From the "Imagination Mathematical" to the Threshold of Analysis -- Teeming Things and Empty Relations -- 3. Early Numeracy and the Classifying of Mathematics -- 4. Thing-Mathematics: The Medieval Quadrivium -- 5. Arithmetic: Hindu-Arabic Numbers and the Rise of Commerce -- 6. Music: Taming Time, Tempering Tone -- 7. Geometry: The Illusions of Perspective and Proportion -- 8. Astronomy: The Technologies of Time -- Part III. Galileo and the Analytical Temper -- The Moment of Modern Science -- 9. The Birth of Analysis -- 10. Toward the Mathematization of Matter -- 11. Demonstrations and Narrations: The Doctrine of Two Truths -- Epilogue: The Great Rift Today -- Appendixes -- Illustration Credits -- Notes -- Index