Nov 02 2008
News item: Coupling of Science and Religion
This article, in the Vancouver Sun, is the first of a series on the topic of science and religion. Of particular interest is the reference to “the striking similarity between 16th-century Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus’s arguments for the Earth’s rotation and those of 13th-century Muslim polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi”, noted by science historian and Islamicist Dr. F. Jamil Ragep of McGill University.
November 8th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I appreciate the link to the Vancouver Sun article and look forward to reading others in the series. The intersection of astronomy and religion is of particular interest to me. Thank you for putting together such an attractive and topically diverse resource.