The great rift : literacy, numeracy, and the religion-science divide / Michael E. Hobart.
The great rift : literacy, numeracy, and the religion-science divide / Michael E. Hobart.
The great rift : literacy, numeracy, and the religion-science divide / Michael E. Hobart.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/2663
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English
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xiv, 506 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
A world of words and things -- Demonstrable common sense: pre-modern science -- Early numeracy and the classifying of mathematics -- Thing mathematics: the medieval quadrivium -- Arithmetic: Hindu-Arabic numbers and the rise of commerce -- Music: taming time, tempering tone -- Geometry: the illusion...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2018.
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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 inve...
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The great rift : literacy, numeracy, and the religion-science divide / Michael E. Hobart.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/2663
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74VKVoKVk783
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0674983637 hardcover alkaline paper
9780674983632 hardcover alkaline paper
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201.65
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991024166181602626
