Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science and Religion and How It Led to the Secular Age Egdall Ira Mark
Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science and Religion and How It Led to the Secular Age Egdall Ira Mark Cosmic Roots traces the five-thousand-year conflict between science and religion -- and how…
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Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science and Religion and How It Led to the Secular Age Egdall Ira Mark
Cosmic Roots traces the five-thousand-year conflict between science and religion -- and how it has shaped our modern secular worldview.Told with rare clarity and striking insight, this fascinating and thought-provoking book focuses on the history of cosmology and its sister science astronomy. The story begins with the cosmological beliefs of the ancients -- from the flat Earth models of the Sumerians and Hebrews to the Greek notion of the orbits of planets as divine circles. For it was discoveries within these great disciplines which first led to the conflict between science and religion.
Their combined scientific achievements stand as testimony to the power and imagination of the human mind.This meticulously researched Topics progress from Aristotle and Ptolemy's integrated planetary models to the Sun-centered cosmologies of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and the great Isaac Newton.