title: The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
author:  Peter Harrison 
description: 'That pessimistic, otherworldly Protestant theology helped to produce optimistic modern science is the major thesis masterfully defended in this well-wrought, meticulously documented book.... In marshalling the evidence and extracting its implications, Harrison persuasively demonstrates that theological debates regarding scriptural narrative and the human soul were integral to the emergence of what we today recognize as bona fide empirically grounded science....' -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion<br /><br />"... one of the most insightful, carefully researched, tightly argued and helpful contributions on the relationship between the development of scientific knowledge and the influence of religion on that development that I have read." <br />Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae
zlib_text: LBronowski
  The spectacular national bestseller
  from the television series seen by
  more than two million people weekly.
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive
  in 2011
  http://www.archive.org/details/isbn_9780316109338
  
  THE ASCENT OF MAN
  
  Other Books by J. Bronowski
  The Poet's Defence 1939 & 1966
  William Blake and The Age of Revolution
  1 944 &
  1 96 c
  The Common Sense of Science 19^1
  The Face of Violence
  1 9 £4 & 1967
  Science and Human Values 19^8
  with The Abacus and The Rose:
  A New Dialogue on Two World Systems 196c
  Selections from William Blake 19^8
  The Western Intellectual Tradition
  (with Prof. Bruce Mazlish) i960
  Insight 1964
  The Identity of Man
  1 9 6 c & 1972
  Nature and Knowledge
  :
  The Philosophy of Contemporary Science 1969
  >S3^
  
  J.BRONOWSKI
  THE ASCENTOFMAN
  Little, Brown and Company
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