Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with some loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xviii, 864 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. "This Source Book explores a millennium of European scientific thought accompanied by critical commentary and annotation; nearly half the selections appear for the first time in the vernacular. Representing 'science' in the medieval sense, selections include alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology as well as mathematics, physics, and biology." From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).

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T�tulo

A Source Book in Medieval Science (Source Books in the History of the Sciences)

Editor

Harvard University Press

Fecha de publicaci�n

1974

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0674823605

ISBN 13

9780674823600

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Estado

Very Good

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Modern scholarship has exposed the intrinsic importance of medieval science and confirmed its role in preserving and transmitting Greek and Arabic achievements. This Source Book offers a rare opportunity to explore more than ten centuries of European scientific thought. In it are approximately 190 selections by about 85 authors, most of them from the Latin West. Nearly half of the selections appear here for the first time in any vernacular translation.

The readings, a number of them complete treatises, have been chosen to represent “science” in a medieval rather than a modern sense. Thus, insofar as they are relevant to medieval science, selections have been drawn from works on alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology. Most of the book, however, reflects medieval understanding of, and achievements in, the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences. Critical commentary and annotation accompany the selections. An appendix contains brief biographies of all authors.

This book will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars in the history of science.

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Edward Grant is Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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