God and Galileo
What a 400-Year-Old Letter Teaches Us about Faith and Science
Published on 31. May 2019
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-4335-6289-1 (ISBN)
Description
Using excerpts from a letter written by famed astronomer Galileo in 1615, two modern-day astronomers explore the relationship between science and faith, arguing that our notion of ultimate truth must include both the physical and spiritual domains.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wheaton, IL
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
459 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4335-6289-1 (9781433562891)
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David L. Block | Kenneth C. Freeman
God and Galileo
What a 400-Year-Old Letter Teaches Us about Faith and Science
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05/2019
Crossway
€16.19
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Persons
David L. Block (PhD, University of Cape Town) is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His research has twice been featured on the cover of Nature, the world's most prestigious scientific journal. He is the author of several books, including Starwatch and Shrouds of the Night. He has been a visiting research astronomer at Harvard University, the Australian National University, and the European Southern Observatory, among other institutes.
Kenneth C. Freeman (PhD, Cambridge University) is Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Science, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, and one of the first to discover that spiral galaxies contain a large fraction of dark matter.
Kenneth C. Freeman (PhD, Cambridge University) is Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Science, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, and one of the first to discover that spiral galaxies contain a large fraction of dark matter.