National Museum of American History  /  Discovery and Revelation: Religion, Science, and Making Sense of Things

Drawing on diverse objects, events, and people, this book presents how science and religion impacted one another in the development of culture and the way we see the world.

  • Cover features a seated male figure with Asian features in loose fitting burgundy clothes with several electrodes with wires on his forehead and scalp.
  • Title page for Discovery and Revelation: Religion, Science, and Making Sense of Things features an image of the Earth rising as viewed from the moon.
  • Chapter opener features a detail from a 16th century automaton of a friar.
  • This chapter opener shows a woodcut portrait of of Benjamin Bannker on the cover of his 1795 almanac.
  • Two pages showing a model of the solar system with not only the planets orbiting the sun, but moons orbiting the planets.
  • Chapter opener with a 1921 portrait of Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes wearing a white button down shirt, tie, and hat.
  • A photo from 1925 of William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow during the Scopes trial held outdooors.
  • A paleontological chart from 1840 by Orra White Hitchcock showing the evolution of plants as compared to animals.

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Front cover features the San Rafael santo from eighteenth-century Puerto Rico.

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