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005			20240726104758.0
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020			_a9780674985186 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aBL265 _b.G743 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aHobart, Michael E., _d1944- _e1
245	1	0	_aThe great rift : _bliteracy, numeracy, and the religion-science divide / _cMichael E. Hobart.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_aIn their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin of this difference in the work of Renaissance thinkers who invented a revolutionary mathematical system--relational numeracy. By creating meaning through numbers and abstract symbols rather than words, relational numeracy allowed inquisitive minds to vault beyond the constraints of language and explore the natural world with a fresh interpretive vision. The Great Rift is the first book to examine the religion-science divide through the history of information technology. Hobart follows numeracy as it emerged from the practical counting systems of merchants, the abstract notations of musicians, the linear perspective of artists, and the calendars and clocks of astronomers. As the technology of the alphabet and of mere counting gave way to abstract symbols, the earlier "thing-mathematics" metamorphosed into the relational mathematics of modern scientific investigation. Using these new information symbols, Galileo and his contemporaries mathematized motion and matter, separating the demonstrations of science from the linguistic logic of religious narration. Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that opened new windows onto nature. In so doing, he connects the cognitive breakthroughs of the past with intellectual debates ongoing in the twenty-first century.-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_tA world of words and things -- _tDemonstrable common sense: pre-modern science -- _tEarly numeracy and the classifying of mathematics -- _tThing mathematics: the medieval quadrivium -- _tArithmetic: Hindu-Arabic numbers and the rise of commerce -- _tMusic: taming time, tempering tone -- _tGeometry: the illusions of perspective and proportion -- _tAstronomy: the technologies of time -- _tThe moment of modern science -- _tThe birth of analysis -- _tToward the mathematization of matter -- _tDemonstrations and narrations: the doctrine of two truths.
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650		0	_aReligion and science _xHistory.
650		0	_aNumeration _xHistory.
650		0	_aMathematics _xHistory.
650		0	_aMathematics, Medieval.
650		0	_aScience, Renaissance.
650		0	_aSigns and symbols _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell