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Tom Mcleish

Faith and Wisdom in Science

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Can you Count the Clouds? asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as a deeply human and ancient activity, embedded in some of the oldest stories told about human desire to understand the natural world. Drawing on stories from the modern science of chaos anduncertainty alongside medieval, patristic, classical and Biblical sources, Faith and Wisdom in Science challenges much of the current 'science and religion' debate as operating with the wrong… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-100710-1
  • EAN: 9780191007101
  • Produktnummer: 17000703
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 296 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 2'903 KB
  • Abbildungen: 13 b/w illustrations

Über den Autor


Tom McLeish is Professor of Physics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Durham University. He studied for his first degree and PhD in polymer physics at the University of Cambridge and in 1987 became a lecturer in physics at the University of Sheffield. In 1993 he took the chair in polymer physics at the University of Leeds. He took up his current position in Durham in 2008. He has won several awards for his work on molecular rheology of polymers, including theWeissenberg Award of the European Society of Rheology (2007), the Gold Medal of the British Society of Rheology (2009) and the Bingham Award of the Society of Rheology (2010). He is also involved in science-communication with the public via regular radio, TV and schools lectures, discussing issuesfrom the Physics of Slime to the interaction of Faith and Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society and the Royal Society.

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