money, market exchange, and the emergence of scientific thought /
Joel Kaye.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
1 online resource (x, 273 pages)
Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
4th ser., 35
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index.
This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in their search for factors influencing proto-scientific thought. This book searches for influences both within and beyond university culture, and argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly influenced by the contemporary rapid monetisation of European society. It analyses the impact of the monetised market place on the most characteristic concern of natural philosophy of the period: its preoccupation with measurement, gradation, and the quantification of qualities.
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Exchange-- History.
Money-- History.
Science, Medieval-- Philosophy.
Échange, Théorie de l' (Économie politique)-- Histoire.