The beginnings of western science : the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, prehistory to A.D. 1450
David C. Lindberg (Author)
David C. Lindberg surveys the most important themes in the history of science, including developments is 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
eBook, English, 2007
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007
History
1 online resource (506 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780226482040, 0226482049
899008655
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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