The Foundations Of Modern Science In The Middle Ages

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521567626
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages written by Edward Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of the Middle Ages as they relate to early modern science.

Author : James Hannam
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848311583
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Philosophers written by James Hannam and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-08-07 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam debunks many of the myths about the Middle Ages, showing that medieval people did not think the earth is flat, nor did Columbus 'prove' that it is a sphere; the Inquisition burnt nobody for their science nor was Copernicus afraid of persecution; no Pope tried to ban human dissection or the number zero. "God's Philosophers" is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. Decisive progress was also made in technology: spectacles and the mechanical clock, for instance, were both invented in thirteenth-century Europe. Charting an epic journey through six centuries of history, "God's Philosophers" brings back to light the discoveries of neglected geniuses like John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as putting into context the contributions of more familiar figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Author : Edwin Arthur Burtt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science written by Edwin Arthur Burtt and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. A. Burtt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621381785
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science written by E. A. Burtt and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the medieval thinker, man was the center of creation, and all of nature existed purely for his benefit. The shift from the philosophy of the Middle Ages to the modern view of humanity's less central place in the universe ranks as the greatest revolution in the history of Western thought, and this classic in the philosophy of science describes and analyzes how that profound change occurred. A fascinating analysis of the works of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Hobbes, Gilbert, Boyle, and Newton, it not only establishes the reasons for the triumph of the modern perspective, but also accounts for certain limitations in this view that continue to characterize contemporary scientific thought. A criticism as well as a history of the change that made possible the rise of modern science, this volume is also a guide to understanding the methods and accomplishments of the great philosopher-scientists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Author : Amos Funkenstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691184267
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology and the Scientific Imagination written by Amos Funkenstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book ends with Funkenstein’s influential analysis of the seventeenth century’s “unprecedented fusion” of scientific and religious language. Featuring a new foreword, Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pathbreaking and classic work that remains a fundamental resource for historians and philosophers of science.

Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226482332
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science in the Middle Ages written by David C. Lindberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, sixteen leading scholars address themselves to providing as full an account of medieval science as current knowledge permits. Designed to be introductory, the authors have directed their chapters to a beginning audience of diverse readers.

Author : Amos Funkenstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691181356
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology and the Scientific Imagination written by Amos Funkenstein and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book ends with Funkenstein's influential analysis of the seventeenth century's "unprecedented fusion" of scientific and religious language. Featuring a new foreword, Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pathbreaking and classic work that remains a fundamental resource for historians and philosophers of science.

Author : Alistair Cameron Crombie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval and Early Modern Science written by Alistair Cameron Crombie and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801884016
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 written by Edward Grant and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant illuminates how today's scientific culture originated with the religious thinkers of the Middle Ages.

Author : James A. Weisheipl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780472091812
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Physical Theory in the Middle Ages written by James A. Weisheipl and published by . This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: