Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

What was the role of religious belief in the rise of modern science? Was it always as negative as the Galileo affair might suggest? This collection of essays from a distinguished team of scholars makes an exciting new contribution because its subject is the independent thinkers in early modern Europe - Galileo, Hobbes, and Newton as well as less familiar figures - and the ways in which their heterodoxy in science or religion affected their understanding of nature and of God.