Are science and faith, particularly Christianity, inevitably in conflict, as the New Atheists proclaim? Have they not always been so? Weren't early scientists hounded for their discoveries until Darwin burst on the scene and sent faith packing? Not if you look at the facts, says Dr Allan Chapman, who teaches the History of Science at the University of Oxford. History shows us that Galileo was not the victim of Church persecution - nor did Huxley win the debate with Wilberforce. Drawing on contemporary sources, Dr Chapman proves that the history of science and of faith always have been closely intertwined. From the leading scientists of medieval times, many in Holy Orders, to the seventeenth-century Popes who maintained an astronomical observatory in the Vatican, to the Christian people of science today, science and faith have grown up together.
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Weight: 322g
Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 15 Feb 2013
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780745955834
About Allan ChapmanDr Allan Chapman
Dr Allan Chapman is a historian of science at Oxford University with special interests in the history of astronomy and of medicine and the relationship between science and Christianity. As well as University teaching he lectures widely has written a dozen books and numerous academic articles and written and presented two TV series Gods in the Sky and Great Scientists besides taking part in many other history of science TVdocumentaries and in The Sky at Night with Sir Patrick Moore. He has received honorary doctorates and awards from the Universities of Central Lancashire Salford and Lancaster and in 2015 was presented with the Jackson-Gwilt Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society. Among his books are Slaying the Dragons. Destroying Myths in the History of Science and Faith (Lion Hudson 2013) Stargazers: Copernicus Galileo the Telescopeand the Church. The Astronomical Renaissance 1500-1700 (Lion 2014) and Physicians Plagues and Progress. The History of Western Medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics (Lion 2016). He is also the author of thescientific biographies England's Leonardo. Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution (Institute of Physics 2005) Mary Somerville and the World of Science (Canopus 2004; Springer 2015) and The Victorian Amateur Astronomer. Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920 (Wiley-Praxis 1998; revised edn. Gracewing 2017).