Book ID: CBB001550769

Physica sacra: Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (2013)

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Roling, Bernd (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: x + 485 pp.
Language: German

Was it a whale or a shark that devoured Jonah? And how were the walls of Jericho brought down? In his wide-ranging study, 'Physica Sacra', Bernd Roling shows that the natural sciences and biblical exegesis have not always stood in stark opposition to one another. From the high Middle Ages, Bible commentators such as Albertus Magnus and Alonso Tostado made extensive use of the knowledge available in their times about zoology, medicine and astronomy to explain the wonders of revelation and to defend their historical basis. Even with the advent of modern Biblical criticism and in the age of Enlightenment, as is shown here in detail, their arguments were valid enough to refute critics like Spinoza, Isaac de la Peyrère and Voltaire.

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Review Touber, Jetze (2015) Review of "Physica sacra: Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 174-175). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gensini, Stefano
Albert the Great
Arata, Luigi
Bertolacci, Amos
Bianchi, Lorenzo
Ciocci, Argante
Journals
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
HOPOS
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Catholic University of America Press
de Gruyter
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Edizioni ETS
Concepts
Philosophy
Natural philosophy
Physics
Zoology
Aristotelianism
Animals
People
Albertus Magnus
Descartes, René
Avicenna
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Aristotle
Time Periods
Medieval
17th century
16th century
Ancient
Renaissance
11th century
Places
Europe
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
England
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