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Cover 1 Contents 6 1. Introduction 8 Mark McCartney 8 2. The Pythagoreans: number and numerology 28 Andrew Gregory 28 3. Divine light 58 Allan Chapman 58 4. Kepler and his Trinitarian cosmology 84 Owen Gingerich 84 5. The Lull before the storm: combinatorics in the Renaissance 96 Robin Wilson and John Fauvel 96 6. Mystical arithmetic in the Renaissance: from biblical hermeneutics to a philosophical tool 112 Jean-Pierre Brach 112 7. Newton, God, and the mathematics of the two books 128 Rob Iliffe 128 8. Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God 152 Massimo Mazzotti 152 9. Capital G for Geometry: Masonic lore and the history of geometry 174 Snezana Lawrence 174 10. Charles Dodgson’s work for God 198 Mark Richards 198 11. P.G. Tait, Balfour Stewart, and The Unseen Universe 220 Elizabeth F. Lewis 220 12. Faith and Flatland 256 Melanie Bayley 256 13. Gödel’s ‘proof’ for the existence of God 286 C. Anthony Anderson 286 Author biographies 297 Index 300

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Author

Lawrence, Snezana; McCartney, Mark; Gingerich, Owen

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction