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The Great Rift

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Great Rift

By Michael E. Hobart

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About the book

In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin of this difference in the work of Renaissance thinkers who invented a revolutionary mathematical system-relational numeracy. By creating meaning through numbers and abstract symbols rather than words, relational n...Show more

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9780674983632

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2018

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1

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The Great Rift

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Hardcover

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