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Science, Technology, and Economic Progress in the Middle Ages by Brian Stock, The Transmission of Greek and Arabic Learning to the West, by David C. Lindberg, The Philosophical Setting of Medieval Science by William A. Wallace, O. P., The Institutional Setting: The Universities by Pearle Kibre and Nancy G. Siraisi, Mathematics by Michael S. Mahoney, The Science of Weights by Joseph E. Brown, The Science of Motion by John E. Murdoch and Edith D...

Reveals the diversity of goals, contexts and accomplishments in scientific study during the Middle Ages.

This volume offers broad reflections on the Scientific Revolution by leading scholars on 1500 1600 science.

Reveals the diversity of goals, contexts and accomplishments in scientific study during the Middle Ages.

Kepler's successful solution to the problem of vision early in the seventeenth century was a theoretical triumph as significant as many of the more celebrated developments of the scientific revolution. Yet the full import of Kepler's arguments can be grasped only when they are viewed against the background of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance visual theory. David C. Lindberg provides this background, and in doing so he fills the gap in histor...

Despite the intensive research of the past quarter century, there still is no single book that examines all major aspects of the medieval scientific enterprise in depth. This illustrated volume is meant to fill that gap. In it sixteen leading scholars address themselves to topics central to their research, providing as full an account of medieval science as current knowledge permits. Although the book is definitive, it is also introductory, fo...

Have science and Christianity been locked in mortal combat for the past 2000 years? Or has their relationship been one of peaceful coexistence, encouragement, and support? Both opinions have been vigorously defended, widely disseminated, and hotly debated. And both have been rejected by knowledgeable historians as unacceptable oversimplifications of the historical reality.This book steps back from those debates, abandoning, for the present, th...

Chronicling the development of scientific ideas, practices, and institutions from pre-Socratic Greek philosophy to late-medieval scholasticism, this title surveys the themes in the history of science, including developments in cosmology, astronomy, mechanics, optics, alchemy, natural history, and medicine.

This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity. Among the events treated in "When Science and Christianity Meet" are the Galileo affair, the seventeenth-century clockwork universe, Noah's ark and flood in t...

Este libro es el primer intento de dar una vision global de la ciencia en el mundo antiguo, de escribir una historia de la ciencia medieval en su conjunto, y de presentar una exposicion detallada y unificada del asunto en un unico volumen. En el, David C. Lindberg narra con energia el desarrollo de las ideas practicas e instituciones cientificas a las que dio lugar los albores del pensamiento humano, desde la filosofia presocratica griega hast...