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Doubt : a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson / Jennifer Michael Hecht.

by Hecht, Jennifer Michael, 1965-

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New York, NY : HarperSanFrancisco, c2003.

Belief and doubt -- History.

xxi, 551 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Doubt is no shadow: a quiz and a guide to the question -- Whatever happened to Zeus and Hera?, 600 BCE-1 CE: Greek doubt -- Smacking the temple, 600 BCE-1 CE: doubt and the ancient Jews -- What the Buddha saw, 600 BCE-1 CE: ancient doubt in Asia -- When in Rome in doubt, 50 BCE-1 CE: empire in reason -- Christian doubt, Zen, Elisha, and Hypatia, 1-800 CE: late-classical mix -- Medieval doubt loops-the-loop, 800-1400: Muslims to Jews to Christians -- The printing press and the Age of Martyrs, 1400-1600: Renaissance and inquisition -- Sunspots and White House doubters, 1600-1800: revolutions in the authority of reason -- Doubt's bid for a better work, 1800-1900: freethinking in the age of science and reform -- Principles of uncertainty, 1900-: the new cosmopolitan -- The joy of doubt: ethics, logic, mood.

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