Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

The Separation Of Science And Religion In Modern Secular Culture Can Easily Obscure The Fact That In Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-century Europe Ideas About Nature Were Intimately Related To Ideas About God. Readers Of This Book Will Find Fresh And Exciting Accounts Of A Phenomenon Common To Both Science And Religion: Deviation From Orthodox Belief. How Is Heterodoxy To Be Measured? How Might The Scientific Heterodoxy Of Particular Thinkers Impinge On Their Religious Views? Would Heterodoxy In Religion Create A Predisposition Towards Heterodoxy In Science? Might There Be A Homology Between Heterodox Views In Both Domains? Such Major Protagonists As Galileo And Newton Are Re-examined Together With Less Familiar Figures In Order To Bring Out The Extraordinary Richness Of Scientific And Religious Thought In The Pre-modern World. -- Publisher's Description. Heterodoxy In Natural Philosophy And Medicine : Pietro Pomponazzi, Guglielmo Gratarolo, Girolamo Cardano / Ian Maclean -- John Donne's Religion Of Love / David Wootton -- Le Plus Beau Et Le Plus Meschant Esprit Que Ie Aye Cogneu : Science And Religion In The Writings Of Giulio Cesare Vanini, 1585-1619 / Nicholas S. Davidson -- The Confessionalization Of Physics : Heresies, Facts, And The Travails Of The Republic Of Letters / Christoph Lüthy -- Galileo Galilei And The Myth Of Heterodoxy / William E. Carroll -- Copernicanism, Jansenism, And Remonstrantism In The Seventeenth-century Netherlands / Tabitta Van Nouhuys -- When Did Pierre Gassendi Become A Libertine? / Margaret J. Osler -- Hobbes, Heresy, And Corporeal Deity / Cees Leijenhorst -- The True Frame Of Nature : Isaac Newton, Heresy, And The Reformation Of Natural Philosophy / Stephen D. Snobelen -- The Heterodox Career Of Nicolas Fatio De Duillier / Scott Mandelbrote -- Claiming Him As Her Son : William Stukeley, Isaac Newton, And The Archaeology Of The Trinity / David Boyd Haycock -- Joining Natural Philosophy To Christianity : The Case Of Joseph Priestley / John Brooke. Edited By John Brooke And Ian Maclean. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.