AUTHORITY AND ASTRONOMY: ON THE HISTORICAL FRAME OF THE RISE OF MODERN SCIENCE Cover Image

АУТОРИТЕТ И АСТРОНОМИЈА - ИСТОРИЈСКО-КОНТЕКСТУАЛНИ ОКВИР УСПОНА МОДЕРНЕ НАУКЕ -
AUTHORITY AND ASTRONOMY: ON THE HISTORICAL FRAME OF THE RISE OF MODERN SCIENCE

Author(s): Milan Brdar
Subject(s): Religion and science , Evaluation research, 16th Century, 17th Century
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: modern science; religion; protestantism; catholicism; scepticism; XVI Century polemics; Royal Society; institutionalization of science; Newton; rationalism; scientism;

Summary/Abstract: Topic of the article is relation of the rise of modern science and religion in Wester Europe in XVI-XVII Century. Autor gives try to contribute to polemics unfolded around Robert Merton’s study Science, Religion and Society in XVIIth Century England (1938), with two new thesis demonstrated on the basis of historical material. First, immediate significance of religion is not the main issue but relation and polemics among the Churches in the period of late Reformation, i.e., at the end of XVI Century. Here profound significance belongs to the sceptical polemics between chatolics (jesuits) and protestants (Hugenots) in France during the second half of the Century. For no side could afford the answer to the question of truth meaning of Holly Writt, polemisc have deepen the crisis of christian theology in general. Thus, space is being open to the new born science of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo as a new alternative.

  • Issue Year: 47/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 295-325
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Serbian