This volume discusses the ways in which religious conviction and the development of the natural sciences and medicine influenced each other in the 16th century. Contrary to the still widespread view that relations between religion and the sciences at the dawn of the "scientific revolution" were ridden with bitter conflict, the studies here present a more differentiated picture. They indicate that scientists in the 16th century were pious and religiously observant, well-aware of their respective sacred tradition. No matter whether Jewish, Roman Catholic or Protestant, they found their specific ways and means to pursue studies on nature and in the medical sciences.
Author(s): Jurgen Helm, Annette Winkelmann
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 160
Contents......Page 6
Foreword to the Series......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Contributors and Editors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
SECTION ONE: CHRISTIAN CONFESSIONS AND THE SCIENCES......Page 16
Melanchthon and the Tradition of Neoplatonism......Page 18
The Jesuits and the Janus-Faced History of Natural Sciences......Page 34
Science and Religion in Royal Prussia around 1600......Page 50
Protestant Anatomy......Page 59
Religion and Medicine: Anatomical Education at Wittenberg and Ingolstadt......Page 66
SECTION TWO: WAYS OF TRANSMISSION......Page 84
The Influence of Hasdai Crescas's Philosophy on Some Aspects of Sixteenth-Century Philosophy and Science......Page 86
Language and Medicine in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire......Page 94
SECTION THREE: JUDAISM BETWEEN TRADITION AND SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES......Page 112
Tradition and Innovation: Religion, Science and Jewish Culture Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries......Page 114
Jews between Profane and Sacred Science in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Abraham Portaleone......Page 123
Science and Religious Hermeneutics: The 'Philosophy' of Rabbi Loew of Prague......Page 134
The Relevance of Geography for the Jewish Religion......Page 151
H......Page 174
T......Page 175
Z......Page 176
