The Future of Reason, Science and Faith (Transcending by J. Andrew Kirk
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35 Hooykaas, Religion and the Rise, op. , p. 134. 36 Barry Gower, Scientific Method: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction (London, 1997), pp. 41–57. 37 Dion Scott-Kakures et al. (eds), History of Philosophy (New York, 1993), p. 100. , pp. 165–166. Origins of Modern Science 37 The Study of Two Books In spite of what might appear, to later generations, the beginning of a logical rift between theology and science (metaphysics and physics), there is little to suggest that the pioneers of the experimental procedures in the natural sciences would have considered such a rupture either necessary or agreeable.
51 Colin Russell, Cross-currents: Interactions between Science and Faith (Leicester, 1985), pp. 83–84. , p. 25; see, Robert Merton, Science and Technology in Seventeenth Century England (New York, 1970) and, for a critical assessment of Merton’s theory, I. Bernard Cohen, Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science: The Merton Thesis (New Brunswick, 1990). 53 A proper balance between both seems to be a necessary corollary of a wide view of historical processes. What is being argued here is that, during the seventeenth century, a creatively promising conjunction of two independent but complementary sources of knowledge available to humanity came together for a short time in the thinking of men who were both eminent scientists and theologians.
168. 6 Quoted in Colin Ronan, The Cambridge Illustrated History of the World’s Science (Cambridge, 1983), p. 330. Even though the remark may be apocryphal, the content reflects the massive implications of the theory. 3 Origins of Modern Science 31 Resistance to the changes persisted well into the seventeenth century. Medieval science was carried out within an Aristotelian framework with goals very different from those of Galileo and his successors. From 1250 to 1650, the philosophy of Aristotle formed the core of the universities’ curriculum throughout Western Europe.