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Creation, Contingency, And Early Modern Science: The Impact Of Voluntarist Theology On Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Edward B. Davis
Creation, Contingency, And Early Modern Science: The Impact Of Voluntarist Theology On Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Edward B. Davis
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Could God have made it true that 2 + 2 = 5? Was he bound to make the best of all possible worlds? Is he able at this moment to alter the course of nature, either in whole or in part? Questions like these are often associated with medieval theology, not with early modern science. But science is done by people, and people have not always practiced the rigorous separation of science and theology that has come to characterize the modern world. Although many 17th century scientists sought validity for their work apart from revelation, divorcing science from religion was …