عنوان

The great rift :

شابک

0674983637

شابک

9780674983632

عنوان اصلي

The great rift :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

literacy, numeracy, and the religion-science divide /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Michael E. Hobart.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Harvard University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2018.

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2018

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiv, 506 pages ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin of this difference in the work of Renaissance thinkers who invented a revolutionary mathematical system--relational numeracy. By creating meaning through numbers and abstract symbols rather than words, relational numeracy allowed inquisitive minds to vault beyond the constraints of language and explore the natural world with a fresh interpretive vision. The Great Rift is the first book to examine the religion-science divide through the history of information technology. Hobart follows numeracy as it emerged from the practical counting systems of merchants, the abstract notations of musicians, the linear perspective of artists, and the calendars and clocks of astronomers. As the technology of the alphabet and of mere counting gave way to abstract symbols, the earlier "thing-mathematics" metamorphosed into the relational mathematics of modern scientific investigation. Using these new information symbols, Galileo and his contemporaries mathematized motion and matter, separating the demonstrations of science from the linguistic logic of religious narration. Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that opened new windows onto nature. In so doing, he connects the cognitive breakthroughs of the past with intellectual debates ongoing in the twenty-first century.--

موضوع مستند نشده

Mathematics-- History.

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Mathematics, Medieval.

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Numeration-- History.

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Religion and science-- History.

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Science, Renaissance.

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Signs and symbols-- History.

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02.01 history of science and culture.

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15.70 history of Europe.

موضوع مستند نشده

Mathematics, Medieval.

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Mathematics.

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Mathematik

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Numeration.

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Religion

موضوع مستند نشده

Religion and science.

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Science, Renaissance.

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Signs and symbols.

موضوع مستند نشده

Wissenschaft

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Wissenschaftsentwicklung

موضوع مستند نشده

Zahlzeichen

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hobart, Michael E.,1944-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822122140.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y