Roman Catholicism and modern science : a history / Don O'Leary.
Roman Catholicism and modern science : a history / Don O'Leary.
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London ; New York : Continuum, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N261.55088/1
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English
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xx, 356 p. ; 24 cm.
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From Galileo to Darwin -- Religion and science in Victorian Britain -- A church under siege -- Defensive strategies -- The suppression of the Mivartian hypothesis -- Antimodernism -- Catholicism and science in the interwar years -- Pope Pius XII and the new theology -- Science, faith, and the Second...
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London ; New York : Continuum, 2006.
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New York (State)
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2006.
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"In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomized in the case of Galileo Galilei. Condemned in 1633 for advancing the theory of a moving earth and a stationary sun, he was exonerated only in 1992. Yet apart from relatively few and specialized studies, there have been no extens...
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Roman Catholicism and modern science : a history / Don O'Leary.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-342) and index.
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N261.55088/1
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0826418686 :
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261.55088282
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991022567109702626
