The beginnings of Western science : the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 /

Lindberg, David C,

The beginnings of Western science : the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 / [print] David C. Lindberg. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)1992. - xviii, 455 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.



Science and its origins -- 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 -- Science in Islam -- 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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Science, Ancient--History.
Science, Medieval--History.

Q124 Q124.L742.B445 1992