the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, prehistory to A.D. 1450 /
First Statement of Responsibility
David C. Lindberg.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
2nd ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvi, 488 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
23 cm
SERIES
Series Title
ISSR Library
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-461) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Science before the Greeks -- The Greeks and the cosmos -- Aristotle's philosophy of nature -- Hellenistic natural philosophy -- The mathematical sciences in antiquity -- Greek and Roman medicine -- Roman and early medieval science -- Islamic science -- The revival of learning in the West -- The recovery and assimilation of Greek and Islamic science -- The medieval cosmos -- The physics of the sublunar region -- Medieval medicine and natural history -- The legacy of ancient and medieval science.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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David C. Lindberg surveys the most important themes in the history of science, including developments in cosmology, astronomy, mechanics, optics, alchemy, natural history and medicine. In addition, he offers an account of the transmission of Greek science to medieval Islam and subsequently medieval Europe.