Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-12045-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture

The present volume re-evaluates the role that religious confession played in the development and understanding of the sciences and medicine in the sixteenth century.

It presents the results of an international, interdisciplinary conference held in Wittenberg in December 1998. Scholars from Israel, Italy, Great Britain and Germany discussed the ways in which religious conviction and the development of the natural sciences and medicine influenced each other in the sixteenth century. Contrary to the still widespread view that relations between religion and the sciences at the dawn of the ‘scientific revolution’ were ridden with bitter conflict, the studies here present a more differentiated picture. They indicate that scientists in the sixteenth century were pious and religiously observant, well-aware of their respective sacred tradition. No matter whether Jewish, Roman Catholic or Protestant, they found their specific ways and means to pursue studies on nature and in the medical sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Helm, Jürgen

Winkelmann, Annette

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jürgen Helm, MD, Goettingen University, is Assistant Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
Annette Winkelmann, MA in Judaic Studies, University of Cologne, is Project Manager at the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism and Managing Editor of the Newsletter of the European Association for Jewish Studies.