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Herman
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).2.
John North, The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology (Norton, New York, 1995), p. 226.
3.
J. L. E. Dryer, A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler (Cambridge U.P., London, 1906;
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4.
Reference 3, p. 225.
5.
David C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992), p. 253.
6.
Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Little, Brown, Boston, 1942), p. 33.
7.
Jeffrey Burton Russell, Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians (Praeger, New York, 1991).
8.
A useful introduction, with extensive references, into the interface between science and religion is: John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge U.P., New York, 1991).
See also, David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986).
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