Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Ronald L. Numbers
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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of …
Ellen Harmon White
In America, as in Britain, the Victorian era enjoyed a long life, stretching from the 1830s to the 1910s. It marked the transition from a pre-modern to a modern way of life. Ellen …
God and Nature
Since the publication in 1896 of Andrew Dickson White's classic "History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom", no comprehensive history of the subject has …
Science and Religion Around the World
Because the claim of universalism is associated with Western science, it is often taken for granted that, when exported, scientific knowledge simply diffuses unchanged into other …
The Religion and Science Debate
Six acclaimed scholars—including a biologist, a sociologist, a historian, a philosopher, and a physicist—examine the evolution debate. Eighty-one years after America witnessed the …
When Science and Christianity Meet
This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction …
Prophetess of Health
Respected historian of science Ronald Numbers here examines one of the most influential, yet least examined, religious leaders in American history -- Ellen G. White, the enigmatic …
Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew
As past president of both the History of Science Society and the American Society of Church History, Ronald L. Numbers is uniquely qualified to assess the historical relations …
Creationism in Twentieth-Century America
Despite the undeniable importance of anti-evolutionism in American cultural history, and the plethora of publications since the 1980s, few libraries have collected more than the …
Darwinism Comes to America
In 1997, even as Pope John Paul II was conceding that evolution was "more than just a theory," local school boards and state legislatures were still wrangling over the teaching of …
Science and Medicine in the Old South
With a few notable exceptions, historians have tended to ignore the role that science and medicine played in the antebellum South. The fourteen essays in Science and Medicine in …
The Warfare between Science and Religion
Why is the idea of conflict between science and religion so popular in the public imagination?The “conflict thesis”—the idea that an inevitable and irreconcilable conflict exists …