Science in the Church

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4516115
AutoresJ L Heilbron (University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen3
Número1
Páginas9-28
Fecha de publicación1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience in Context (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0269889700000703
OpenAlexW1968411463
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas15

The ArgumentA brief review of the Merton thesis shows that its restriction to England is arbitrary. An example from the historiography of modern physics suggests the possible payoff of an ecumenical Merton thesis and the means to explore it. A summary of the careers of men who practiced science literally in the church - men who built meridian lines in Italian cathedrals - indicates the range of social support of astronomical studies by Catholic institutions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Archaeology · Epistemology · Historiography · History of science · Classics · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy