Nonfiction · 1896
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Andrew Dickson White spent decades cataloging, subject by subject — astronomy, geology, medicine, chemistry — every instance he could document of organized religious authority resisting a scientific finding it found threatening, and what eventually happened when the resistance failed. The book moves field by field rather than chronologically, building its case less through argument than through sheer accumulated documentation.
White, the founding president of Cornell University, published the finished two-volume History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom in 1896, after decades of research and an earlier, shorter version of the argument.
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Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter I — From Creation to Evolution
- Chapter II — Geography
- Chapter III — Astronomy
- Chapter IV — From "Signs and Wonders" to Law in the Heavens
- Chapter V — From Genesis to Geology
- Chapter VI — The Antiquity of Man Egyptology, and Assyriology
- Chapter VII — The Antiquity of Man and Prehistoric Archaeology
- Chapter VIII — The “Fall of Man” and Anthropology
- Chapter IX — The “Fall of Man” and Ethnology
- Chapter X — The “Fall of Man” and History
- Chapter XI — From "The Prince of the Power of the Air" to Meteorology
- Chapter XII — From Magic to Chemistry and Physics
- Chapter XIII — From Miracles to Medicine
- Chapter XIV — From Fetich to Hygiene
- Chapter XV — From "Demoniacal Possession" to Insanity
- Chapter XVI — From Diabolism to Hysteria
- Chapter XVII — From Babel to Comparative Philology
- Chapter XVIII — From the Dead Sea Legends to Comparative Mythology
- Chapter XIX — From Leviticus to Political Economy
- Chapter XX — From the Divine Oracles to the Higher Criticism
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1832–1918 · Victorian
Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) was born in Homer, New York, graduated from Yale in 1853, and served as an attaché at the American legation in St. Petersburg before returning to teach history at the University of Michigan. In 1865 he secured the charter for Cornell University, built on the then-radical principle that a university's science teaching should answer to no religious authority, and served as its first president from 1868 to 1885. He later served as U.S. minister to Russia and ambassador to Germany, and was a founder and first president of the American Historical Association; History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896) drew on decades of research into what he saw as religion's long record of resisting scientific findings it found threatening.
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