Religion and the Changing Historiography of the Scientific Revolution

Authors

  • Margaret J. Osler Университет Калгари , University of Calgary Автор

Keywords:

history of science, historiography, scientific revolution, positivism, science and religion

Abstract

The article covers «traditional» historiography of the Scientific Revolution, from Auguste Comte to Richard Westfall, and sheds light on the positivist sources that inspired its key ideas and practices. The author believes that positivist views neglected the role of religion in the Scientific Revolution. The situation radically changed in the 19601970s, when historians started to pay attention to a wide variety of cultural factors that took part both in the process of birth of the modern science and in shaping modernity as a whole.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Брук Дж. Х. Наука и религия: историческая перспектива. М.: ББИ, 2004.

Йейтс Ф. Джордано Бруно и герметическая традиция. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2000.

Койре А. От замкнутого мира к бесконечной вселенной. М.: Логос, 2001.

Gabbey A. Henry More and the Limits of Mechanism//Henry More (1614-1687): Tercentenary Studies/Ed. by Hutton S. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1990. P. 19-36.

Barker P., Goldstein B. R. Theological Foundations of Kepler’s Astronomy//Osiris. 2001. Vol. 16. P. 88-113.

Boyle R. A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things: Wherein It Is Inquir’d, Whether, and (If at All) with What Cautions, a Naturalist Should Admit Them? (1688)//The Works of Robert Boyle. 14 vols./Ed. By Hunter M., Davis E. B. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000. Vol. XI. P. 80-151.

Brooke J. Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Brooke J., Cantor G. Reconstructing Nature: the Engagement of Science and Religion. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1998.

Burtt E. A. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1932.

Butterfield H. The Origins of Modern Science, 1300-1800. New York: Free Press, 1957.

Cohen H. F. The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Comte A. Cours de philosophie positive. 6 vols. Paris: Bachelier, Everat, 1830-42.

Cunningham A. Getting the Game Right: Some Plain Words on the Identity and Invention of Science//Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 1988. Vol. 19. P. 365-389.

Cunningham A. How the Principia Got its Name: Or, Taking Natural Philosophy Seriously//History of Science. 1991. Vol. 29. P. 377-92.

D'Alembert J. Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot. Translated by Richard N. Schwab and Walter E. Rex. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963

Dobbs B. J. T. The Foundations of Newton’s Alchemy: Or, «The Hunting of the Greene Lyon». Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.

Dobbs B. J. T. The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Draper J. W. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. New York: Appleton, 1875.

Force J. E., Popkin R. H. Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton’s Theology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1990.

Frangsmyr T. Science or History: George Sarton and the Positivist Tradition in the History of Science//Lychnos. 1975. Vol. 12.

Grant E. The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Hall A. R. The Revolution in Science, 1500-1750. New York: Longman, 1983.

Hall M. B. Robert Boyle on Natural Philosophy: An Essay with Selections from his Writings. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1966.

Harrison P. The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Howell K. J. God’s Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

Huff T. E. The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Iliffe R. Newton: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Koyre A. Etudes galileennes. 3 vols. Paris: Hermann, 1939.

Koyre A. From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1957.

Koyre A. Galileo and the Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century//Philosophical Review. 1943. Vol. 52. P. 333-348.

Koyre A. Galileо and Plato//Journal of the History of Ideas. 1943. Vol. 4. P. 400-28.

Kremer-Marietti A. Comte, Isidore-Auguste-Marie-Francois-Xavier (1798-1857)//Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 10 vols. Routledge: London and New York, 1998.

Mach E. The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development. Translated by Thomas J. McCormack. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1960.

Newton I. Opticks; or a Treatise on the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light. New York: Dover, 1952.

Newton I. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Cohen I. B., Whitman A. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.

Osler M. J. Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Osler M. J. Mixing Metaphors: Science and Religion or Natural Philosophy and Theology in Early Modern Europe//History of Science. 1998. Vol. 36. P. 91-113.

Rattansi P. M., McGuire J. E. Newton and the «Pipes of Pan»//Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 1966. Vol. 21. P. 108-143.

Sarton G. «The New Humanism»//Sarton G. The History of Science and the New Humanism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937.

Sarton G. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins, 1927.

Sarton G. The History of Science//Sarton G. The Life of Science: Essays in the History of Civilization. New York: Henry Schuman, 1948.

Sivin N. Why the Scientific Revolution Did not Take Place in China -or Didn’t It?//Chinese Science. 1982. Vol. 5. P. 45-66.

Snobelen S. D. «God of Gods and Lord of Lords»: The Theology of Isaac Newton’s General Scholium to the Principia//Osiris. 2001. Vol. 16. P. 169-208.

Westfall R. S. Science and Religion in Seventeenth-century England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1958.

Westfall R. S. The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics. New York: John Wiley, 1971.

Westfall R. S. The Scientific Revolution Reasserted//Rethinking the Scientific Revolution/Ed. Osler M. J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Westman R. S. The Melancthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory//Isis. 1975. Vol. 66. P. 165-193.

White A. D. A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. New York: Appleton & Co., 1896.

Wojcik J. W. Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Yates F. A. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Downloads

Published

2013-01-15

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Osler M.J. Religion and the Changing Historiography of the Scientific Revolution // State, Religion and Church. 2013. Vol. 31, no. 1. P. 31–52.

Коды статьи

  • EDN QUUVGV
  • Тип статьи (РИНЦ) Научная статья (Научная статья)