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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pbk, xi, 516 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Some foxing to edges o/w a clean copy in very good condition. Contents : Science and the early church / David C. Lindberg -- Science and theology in the middle ages / Edward Grant -- The copernicans and the churches / Robert S. Westman -- Galileo and the church / William R. Shea -- Catholicism and early modern science / William B. Ashworth -- Reformation theology and the mechanistic conception of nature / Gary B. Deason -- Puritanism, separatism, and science / Charles Webster -- The rise of science and the decline of orthodox Christianity: a study of Kepler, Descartes, and Newton / Richard S. Westfall -- Christianity and the Newtonian worldview / Margaret C. Jacob -- Laplace and the mechanistic universe / Roger Hahn -- The mechanistic conception of life / Jacques Roger -- The shape and meaning of earth history / Martin J.S. Rudwick -- Geologists and interpreters of Genesis in the nineteenth century / James R. Moore -- Christianity and the scientific community in the age of Darwin / A. Hunter Dupree -- The impact of Darwinian evolution on Protestant theology in the nineteenth century / Frederick Gregory -- The creationists / Ronald L. Numbers -- Modern physics and Christian faith / Erwin N. Hiebert -- Protestant theology and natural science in the twentieth century / Keith E. Yandell. [Religion and science History ; Congresses] d1021 / m15512.

Condizione: New. Brand New.

Condizione: New. Brand New.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. First English edition of 'the most widely read and cited of all medieval works on optics'; original Latin text with translation on opposite pages. Pecham lectured at Oxford & Paris and eventually became Archbishop of Canterbury, and was actively involved in assimilating newly discovered ancient Greek and Islamic science into European society. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; #14 in the publisher's series on medieval science. Corners bumped, light general wear, price-clipped jacket edgeworn, particularly at the head of the spine, some scuffs & light tanning, heavier to the spine Text clean; xvii, 300 pages, index, bibliography, notes, figures; biographical sketch of the author, essays on the 'Perspectiva', notes on the manuscripts and printed versions used. Size: Quarto.