Science and Religion

Title

Science and Religion

Description

During the Enlightenment, works of science were inspired by a desire to reconcile the tenets of the Christian religion and the new scientific explanations of phenomena.

Creator

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Publisher

SMU Libraries

Date

Originally exhibited December 8, 2009–April 24, 2010

Collection Items

BRMS 22
Written 1303-1305, this text is a compilation of essential medical knowledge for young doctors. Originally written in Latin, it was translated into Hebrew around 1360. This copy is rare survivor of the widespread destruction of Hebrew books in 1492.

06802
This work describes preparations for medicines and diets, numerous diseases, and discusses surgical procedures.

06919
This treatise on the "Moral and Spiritual Eye" utilizes various optical phenomena to demonstrate lessons of Christian morality. This edition identifies its author as Archbishop Peckham, the treatise was probably written by Petrus de Limoges.

06014
In this treatise d'Ailly sought to reconcile theology and the science of astronomy, which included astrology

06413
This treatise on the "Earthly Sphere" shows that medieval scientists were aware that the earth is not flat. Additionally, the woodcut in this edition is the earliest printed illustration of solar and lunar eclipses.

BRA0851
One of the most significant books in the history of science. Galileo's proof of the Copernican cosmology resulted in his censure and imprisonment in 1633.

BRA0050
The official instrument of Roman Catholic Church censorship beginning in the sixteenth century.

02411
Bacon began this work, first published in 1623, by refuting the argument that the pursuit of knowledge was humanity's Original Sin, and that learning inclines the mind toward heresy and atheism. He was one of the first to establish the scientific…

02331
In this treatise, Whiston attempted to reconcile the Genesis account of creation with seventeenth-century science.

04138
In The Wisdom of God, first printed in 1691 but based on sermons he preached at Cambridge in the 1660s, Ray cited numerous celestial properties, physiological adaptations, and natural laws as scientific evidence of the intelligence underlying God's…

33237
This copiously illustrated nine-volume work provides scientific explanations of the astronomical, geological, meteorological, biological, and physiological aspects of biblical history.
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