The History of Science from Augustine to GalileoRichly illuminating study of the Western scientific tradition from its decay after the collapse of the Roman Empire to its full reflowering in the 17th century. Topics include the incorporation of Greek and Arabic learning, criticism of Aristotle in the later Middle Ages and the Scientific Revolution itself. Over 60 illus. Introduction. Bibliography. 1959 edition. |
Contents
LIST OF PLATES | 17 |
SCIENCE IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM | 29 |
THE RECEPTION OF GRECOARABIC | 51 |
THE SYSTEM OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT | 80 |
Cosmology and Astronomy | 89 |
Meteorology and Optics | 110 |
Mechanics and Magnetism | 125 |
Petrus | 132 |
The Continuity of Medieval and 17thCentury Science 115 | 288 |
THE REVOLUTION IN SCIENTIFIC | 288 |
Astronomy and the New Mechanics 174 | 288 |
Motion of the earth Copernicus 17485 Tycho Brahe 185 | 288 |
Physiology and the Method of Experiment and Measurement 226 | 288 |
The Extension of Mathematical Methods to Instruments | 288 |
Chemistry 259 | 288 |
Botany 267 | 288 |
Chemistry | 139 |
Biology | 149 |
TECHNICS AND SCIENCE | 183 |
Agriculture | 196 |
building transport 21314 Cartography 21416 Mechanical | 217 |
Early medieval medicine treatment and drugs 22831 | 242 |
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SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND DEVELOPMENTS | 288 |
Matter and Space in Late Medieval Physics 49 | 288 |
Dynamics Terrestrial and Celestial 61 | 288 |
Aristotles dynamics 614 Late Greek dynamics Plato | 288 |
Mathematical Physics in the Later Middle Ages 97 | 288 |
Anatomy and Comparative Animal Morphology | 288 |
Art and anatomy Leonardo da Vinci geology 2735 | 288 |
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scientific method mechanical philosophy | 302 |
51 | 305 |
mechanism mind and body causation 30612 Science | 315 |
NOTES TO PLATES | 337 |
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Mechanical clock 24950 Cartography 25053 Thermometer | 9 |
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