Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0674057414 ISBN13: 9780674057418 Release Date: November 2010 Publisher: Harvard University Press Length: 320 Pages Weight: 0.80 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2" If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, Ronald Numbers suggests that we must first dispense with the hoary myths that have masqueraded too long as historical truths. Until about the 1970s, the dominant narrative in the history of science had long been that of science triumphant, and science at war with religion. But a new generation of historians both of science and of the church began to examine episodes in the history of science and religion through the values and knowledge of the actors themselves. Now Ronald Numbers has recruited the leading scholars in this new history of science to -puncture the myths, from Galileo's incarceration to Darwin's de