The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450, Second EditionUniversity of Chicago Press, 15. veebr 2010 - 480 pages When it was first published in 1992, The Beginnings of Western Science was lauded as the first successful attempt ever to present a unified account of both ancient and medieval science in a single volume. Chronicling the development of scientific ideas, practices, and institutions from pre-Socratic Greek philosophy to late-Medieval scholasticism, David C. Lindberg surveyed all the most important themes in the history of science, including developments in cosmology, astronomy, mechanics, optics, alchemy, natural history, and medicine. In addition, he offered an illuminating account of the transmission of Greek science to medieval Islam and subsequently to medieval Europe. The Beginnings of Western Science was, and remains, a landmark in the history of science, shaping the way students and scholars understand these critically formative periods of scientific development. It reemerges here in a second edition that includes revisions on nearly every page, as well as several sections that have been completely rewritten. For example, the section on Islamic science has been thoroughly retooled to reveal the magnitude and sophistication of medieval Muslim scientific achievement. And the book now reflects a sharper awareness of the importance of Mesopotamian science for the development of Greek astronomy. In all, the second edition of The Beginnings of Western Science captures the current state of our understanding of more than two millennia of science and promises to continue to inspire both students and general readers. |
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Page 15
... heavens have been objects of observation and speculation since the dawn of human existence. But our first evidence of close, systematic observa- tion, measurement, and cataloging of the stars and planets is found among Babylonians ...
... heavens have been objects of observation and speculation since the dawn of human existence. But our first evidence of close, systematic observa- tion, measurement, and cataloging of the stars and planets is found among Babylonians ...
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... , 36, 38 Fig. 1.2. A Babylonian zig-zag function, representing arithmetic series. From Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield, The Fabric of the Heavens, p. 50. م الحمدال - العلماء بی اے 212 93 اللهمها الله. Science before the Greeks 17.
... , 36, 38 Fig. 1.2. A Babylonian zig-zag function, representing arithmetic series. From Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield, The Fabric of the Heavens, p. 50. م الحمدال - العلماء بی اے 212 93 اللهمها الله. Science before the Greeks 17.
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... Heaven ... and she bore the long Mountains, pleasant haunts of the goddesses, the Nymphs who dwell in mountain glens; and she bore also the undraining Sea and its furious swell.3 Gaia (mother earth; fig. 2.1) proceeded to mate with her ...
... Heaven ... and she bore the long Mountains, pleasant haunts of the goddesses, the Nymphs who dwell in mountain glens; and she bore also the undraining Sea and its furious swell.3 Gaia (mother earth; fig. 2.1) proceeded to mate with her ...
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... heavenly bodies are bowls filled with fire, and an eclipse occurs when the open side of a bowl turns away from us. These theories of Anaximander and Heraclitus do not seem particularly sophisticated (fifty years after Heraclitus the ...
... heavenly bodies are bowls filled with fire, and an eclipse occurs when the open side of a bowl turns away from us. These theories of Anaximander and Heraclitus do not seem particularly sophisticated (fifty years after Heraclitus the ...
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... heaven to be a musical scale and a number . " 18 Now this is an obscure passage , and our uncertainty is compounded by the likeli- hood that Aristotle did not fully understand the Pythagorean teaching and the possibility that , with his ...
... heaven to be a musical scale and a number . " 18 Now this is an obscure passage , and our uncertainty is compounded by the likeli- hood that Aristotle did not fully understand the Pythagorean teaching and the possibility that , with his ...
Contents
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3 Aristotles Philosophy of Nature | 45 |
4 Hellenistic Natural Philosophy | 67 |
5 The Mathematical Sciences in Antiquity | 82 |
6 Greek and Roman Medicine | 111 |
7 Roman and Early Medieval Science | 132 |
8 Islamic Science | 163 |
10 The Recovery and Assimilation of Greekand Islamic Science | 225 |
11 The Medieval Cosmos | 254 |
12 The Physics of the Sublunar Region | 286 |
13 Medieval Medicine and Natural History | 321 |
14 The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science | 357 |
Notes | 369 |
Bibliography | 413 |
Index | 463 |
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