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The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide

The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide


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Michael Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that moved past language to open new windows onto the natural world. His work connects the cognitive breakthroughs of the past with intellectual debates ongoing in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents:
Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Rift between Science and Religion Part I. A Prayer and a Theory: The Classifying Temper Religio and Scientia 1. A World of Words and Things 2. Demonstrable Common Sense: Premodern Science Part II. From the “Imagination Mathematical” to the Threshold of Analysis Teeming Things and Empty Relations 3. Early Numeracy and the Classifying of Mathematics 4. Thing-Mathematics: The Medieval Quadrivium 5. Arithmetic: Hindu-Arabic Numbers and the Rise of Commerce 6. Music: Taming Time, Tempering Tone 7. Geometry: The Illusions of Perspective and Proportion 8. Astronomy: The Technologies of Time Part III. Galileo and the Analytical Temper The Moment of Modern Science 9. The Birth of Analysis 10. Toward the Mathematization of Matter 11. Demonstrations and Narrations: The Doctrine of Two Truths Epilogue: The Great Rift Today Appendixes Illustration Credits Notes Index

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Hobart offers a new twist on a huge old metanarrative: the death of God. Something or other happened in Renaissance Europe, the story goes, and it eventually distanced scientists from religion. Hobart locates this great shift in the field of mathematics...To make [his] argument, Hobart presents a virtuosic array of evidence...The Great Rift contains a huge wealth of historical anecdote, and Hobart marshals it confidently. -- Josephine Livingstone New Republic The Great Rift is a rich, original, and constructively provocative book that trumpets the value of history when examining the contrast between science and religion. Hobart presents a persuasive and deeply analytic overarching argument that avoids simplistic framing. Covering a wide range of material, this book is at once groundbreaking, satisfying, and a joy to read. -- Joan Richards, Brown University The Great Rift offers an innovative interpretation of the rupture between science and religion from the time of Galileo. Rather than new methods of experimental science or new cosmological conceptions as traditional accounts would have it, Hobart argues for a revolution in information technology that triggered new developments in early modern mathematics as the real culprit responsible for the 'Great Rift.' Informed by a lifetime of work on the history of mathematics as it relates to the history of information technology and intellectual history, this book is full of provocative arguments and fresh perspectives. -- J. B. Shank, author of The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment Numeracy, in fine, is what eventually opened, between religion and science, the rift that would never close again. The momentous story is told with keen insight, meticulous detail, and deep learning. -- Brendan Dooley Journal of Modern History The immense scope of the chronicle, the professional scholarship, and the depth of insight manifested in this complex and comprehensive study of the rise of Western science provides a narrative both engrossing and enlightening...This book is a gem. -- Choice A sturdy contribution to the history of science. -- Kirkus Reviews


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  • ISBN-13: 9780674985186
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 520
  • ISBN-10: 0674985184
  • Publisher Date: 16 Apr 2018
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide


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