The Word and the World

List of figures Notes on contributors Introduction; P.J.Forshaw & K.Killeen PART 1: THE WORD AND THE WORLD The Use of Creatures: Allegory, the Literal Sense and the Contemplative Life; P.Harrison Making Sense of Science and the Literal: Modern Semantics and Early Modern Hermeneutics; J.D.Fleming Reading the Two Books with Francis Bacon: Interpreting God's Will and Power; S.Matthews Textual Criticism and Early Modern Natural Philosophy: The Case of Marin Mersenne (1588-1648); P.Mueller Giordano Bruno's Hermeneutics: Observations on the Bible in De Monade (1591); L.Catana PART 2: INFERIOR AND SUPERIOR ASTRONOMY Vitriolic Reactions: Orthodox Responses to the Alchemical Exegesis of Genesis; P.Forshaw Tycho the Prophet: History, Astrology and the Apocalypse in Early Modern Science; H.Håkansson 'Whether the stars are innumerable for us?': Astronomy and Biblical Exegesis in the Society of Jesus around 1600; V.Remmert Reading the Book of God as the Book of Nature: The Case of the Louvain Humanist Cornelius Valerius (1512-1578); I.A.Kelter PART 3: EXEGESIS AND SCIENCE IN EARLY MODERN CULTURE The Fortunes of Babel: Technology, History, and Genesis 11:1-9; J.Sawday Duckweed and the Word of God: Seminal Principles and Creation in Thomas Browne (1605-1682); K.Killeen Days of the Locust: Natural History, Politics, and the English Bible; K.Edwards