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The fall of man and the foundations of science / Peter Harrison.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 300 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780511371110
  • 051137111X
  • 0511370644
  • 9780511370649
  • 9780511370113
  • 0511370113
  • 1281156043
  • 9781281156044
  • 9780511487750
  • 0511487754
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fall of man and the foundations of science.DDC classification:
  • 231.55 22
LOC classification:
  • BL245 .H35 2007eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • AK 16400
  • AK 27200
  • BO 5490
  • TB 2300
  • 10
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Adam's Encyclopaedia -- Science in paradise -- Falling into ignorance -- Inheriting error -- Carnal knowledge and the divine light -- Baptising aristotle -- Chapter 2 Augustine revived -- Luther and the putrid philosopher -- Depravity and doubt -- Augustinus -- The sceptical hypothesis -- Chapter 3 Seeking certainty in a fallen world -- Vestiges of heavenly light -- Mathematical certainties -- Adam, moses, hermes, solomon -- Inspiration, experience, and experiment -- Chapter 4 Dethroning the idols -- Self-knowledge and the sciences -- The dominion of mind -- The fallen body -- Intellectual idolatry -- Chapter 5 The instauration of learning -- 'Knowledge shall be increased' -- Reversing babel -- Solomon's house -- The limits of reason -- Anthropology abandoned -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Last Page.
Summary: Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)218012

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-291) and index.

Print version record.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Adam's Encyclopaedia -- Science in paradise -- Falling into ignorance -- Inheriting error -- Carnal knowledge and the divine light -- Baptising aristotle -- Chapter 2 Augustine revived -- Luther and the putrid philosopher -- Depravity and doubt -- Augustinus -- The sceptical hypothesis -- Chapter 3 Seeking certainty in a fallen world -- Vestiges of heavenly light -- Mathematical certainties -- Adam, moses, hermes, solomon -- Inspiration, experience, and experiment -- Chapter 4 Dethroning the idols -- Self-knowledge and the sciences -- The dominion of mind -- The fallen body -- Intellectual idolatry -- Chapter 5 The instauration of learning -- 'Knowledge shall be increased' -- Reversing babel -- Solomon's house -- The limits of reason -- Anthropology abandoned -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Last Page.

Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge.