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Title: The Popes and Science
The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the
Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time

Author: James J. Walsh

Release Date: October 2, 2010 [EBook #34019]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Transcriber's note]

This is derived from a copy on the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/popesscienceOOwals

Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly
braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred
in the original book.

Obvious spelling errors have been corrected but "inventive" and
inconsistent spelling is left unchanged. Unusual use of quotation
marks is also unchanged.

Extended quotations and citations are indented.

Two sections in the Table of Contents and several entries in the
Index have been placed in the correct order.

Footnotes have been renumbered to avoid ambiguity, and relocated
to the end of the enclosing paragraph.

[End Transcriber's note]

SOME OPINIONS

THE POPES AND SCIENCE--The story of the Papal Relations to Science
from the Middle Ages down to the Nineteenth Century. By James J.
Walsh, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D. 540 pp. Price, $2.00 net.

Prof. Pagel, Professor of History at the University of Berlin: "This
book represents the most serious contribution to the history of
medicine that has ever come out of America."

Sir Clifford Allbutt, Regius Professor of Physic at the University of
Cambridge (England): "The book as a whole is a fair as well as a
scholarly argument."

_The Evening Post_ (New York) says: "However strong the reader's
prejudice * * * * he cannot lay down Prof. Walsh's volume without at
least conceding that the author has driven his pen hard and deep into
the 'academic superstition' about Papal Opposition to science." In a
previous issue it had said: "We venture to prophesy that all who swear
by Dr. Andrew D. White's History of the Warfare of Science with
Theology in Christendom will find