A Comprehensible Universe The Interplay of Science and Theology

Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The inquiry into the rationality of the world began over two-and-a-half-thousand years ago, when a few courageous people tried t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coyne, George V. (-)
Other Authors: Heller, Michael
Format: Book
Language:Castellano
Published: New York : Springer 2010
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Table of Contents:
  • The Drama of Rationality
  • Discovery that the World is Rational
  • Should the Astronomer Look into the Sky?
  • Seven Fighters against Thebes
  • How to Count the Grains of Sand
  • Is the World Rational?
  • The Input of Christianity
  • Christianity on the Scene
  • Theology and Science in the Epoch of the Church Fathers
  • The Medieval Contribution
  • Discovery of the Method
  • Achilles and the Arrow
  • The Dynamics of Aristotle
  • Three Generations: From Tartaglia to Galileo
  • Birth of the Method
  • Is the World Mathematical?
  • Mathematics at Work
  • Afterthoughts
  • Afterthoughts