Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts

Name: Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts
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ISBN: 9780521567626

ISBN-10: 0521567629

ISBN-13: 9780521567626

Edition: 1996

Authors: Edward Grant, George Basalla, Owen Hannaway

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The roots of modern science were planted in ancient & medieval world long before the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. This shows it is not by chance that the modern science & modern university occurred simultaneously during the Middle Ages.

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/28/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Edward Grant is Professor of History and History of science and Chairman of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, Bloomington.



Preface



The Roman Empire and the first six centuries of Christianity



The new beginning: The age of translation in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries



The medieval university



What the Middle Ages inherited from Aristotle



The reception and impact of Aristotelian learning and the reaction of the Church and its theologians



What the Middle Ages did with its Aristotelian legacy



Medieval natural philosophy, Aristotelians, and Aristotelianism



How the foundations of early modern science were laid in the Middle Ages