^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} Religious Values and The Rise of Science in Europe - 2005

A collection ofarticles that examine the social and cultural environment surroundings cientificactivity and its effects on the development of early modern science during the 16th and 17th centuries, in European and Islamic contexts. Most of thearticles were presented at the workshop on theheme “Science and Human Values” which was organised by the European Science Foundation in cooperation with IRCICA and theTurkish Society for History of Science,on 6-7 October 2001, at IRCICA, İstanbul. The workshop was co-chaired by by Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, who was then the Director General of IRCICA (1980 – Dec.2004), and Prof. Dr. John Hedley Brooke from Oxford University, Chairman of the European Science Foundation. İhsanoğlu and Brooke also cooperatedin editing the book for publication by IRCICA. The research articles containedin the present book review some trends and developments of early modern science during the 16th and 17th centuries, and explore how various values affected them, either positively or negatively. Particular attention is devoted to values based on religion, with some of the articles giving new insights into the relation between science and religion and suggesting the proper perspectives to be adopted in the analysis of this relation.