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The conflict thesis is a historiographical approach in the history of science that originated in the 19th century with John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White. It maintains that there is an intrinsic intellectual conflict between religion and science , and that it inevitably leads to hostility.
Today, White's collection is housed primarily in the Cornell Archives and in the Andrew Dickson White Reading Room (formally known as the "President White Library of History and Political Science") at Uris Library on the Ithaca Campus. The A.D. White Reading Room was designed by William Henry Miller, who had also designed White's mansion on campus.
David C. Lindberg, historian of science, has written, ″No work—not even John William Draper's best-selling History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874)—has done more than White's to instill in the public mind a sense of the adversarial relationship between science and religion...His military rhetoric has captured the imagination of generations of readers, and his copious ...
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Frank Ankersmit has forcefully asserted the importance of Metahistory for the English speaking world. [5] In the view of Ankersmit and like-minded scholars, White's work has made obsolete the view of language as neutral medium in historiography and has provided a way to treat methodological issues at a level higher than elementary propositions and atomic facts.
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conflict – the name of the conflict being described (e.g. "Battle of Lützen" or "World War I"). width – optional – the width of the infobox, e.g. "400px"; defaults to: "315px". partof – optional – the larger conflict containing the event described in the article. For battles or campaigns, this should be the war during which the event ...
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