Peter J. Forshaw and Kevin Killeen, eds. The Word and the World: Biblical Exegesis and Early Modern Science. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xii+264 pp. index. illus. $84.95. ISBN: 978–0–230–50707–4.

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 1000-1002
Author(s):  
Daniel Stolzenberg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Early Modern Science ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Blumenberg’s Problematic Secularization Thesis: Augustine, Curiositas and the Emergence of Late Modernity

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Joseph Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Early Modern Science ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Identity

Christianity, a spirituality of dwelling critically in the world, is seen by some in late modernity to foster an otherworldly attitude, and thus to cultivate a spirituality at odds with modern identity. Especially in the wake of Nietzsche’s condemnation of Christianity on the grounds of its ascetic abandonment of the world, some have contended that Christianity may never have overcome its early conflict with Gnosticism. Hans Blumenberg’s Legitimacy of the Modern Age continues to be read widely. Critics of modernity often avoid confronting the book’s lengthy endorsement of modernity in light of his critique of Augustine’s critique of curiositas. A central aim of this essay is to complicate Blumenberg’s influential thesis about Augustine’s supposed repudiation of “theoretical curiosity” that funded early modern science and inaugurated the modern epoch of self-assertion.

scholarly journals Making a Global Image of the World: Science, Cosmography and Navigation in Times of the First Circumnavigation of Earth, 1492-1522

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. e014
Author(s):  
Antonio Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
World Science ◽  
Early Modern Science ◽  
Geographic Thought ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global World

The voyages of exploration and discovery during the period of European maritime expansion and the immense amount of information and artefacts they produced about our knowledge of the world have maintained a difficult, if not non-existent, relationship with the main historiographical lines of the history of early modern science. This article attempts to problematize this relationship based on a historical account that seeks to highlight the scientific and institutional mechanisms that made the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first modern voyage, possible. The text argues that this voyage was the first modern voyage because it allowed the construction of a new scientific and cartographic image of the globe and contributed to our understanding of the world as a global world, altering the foundations on which modern European economic and geographic thought was based. In that sense, the voyage was something extraordinary, but not completely unexpected. It responded to a complex process of expansionary policy and technical development that dated back to the 15th century, which in 1519 was sufficiently articulated to carry out a great feat.

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