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Sunday, July 20, 2014

How Theology Begat Geology

Carl Zimmer suggests that religion and science coexisted easily in many Renaissance minds. The developing science of geology, for example, was influenced by 16th- and 17th-century understandings of the divine: You don’t have to page through old books to see just how geologically-minded people in the Renaissance had become. Their paintings show us where their […]

An interesting read via The Dish


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