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The Beginnings of Western Science
The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450, Second Edition
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The Beginnings of Western Science
The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450, Second Edition
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The most comprehensive account of ancient and medieval science, a standard work for understanding the history of science
The Beginnings of Western Science is a landmark, the best book to 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 surveys 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 offers an illuminating account of the transmission of Greek science to medieval Islam and subsequently to medieval Europe.
The Beginnings of Western Science is a landmark, the best book to 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 surveys 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 offers an illuminating account of the transmission of Greek science to medieval Islam and subsequently to medieval Europe.
For decades this book has shaped the way students and scholars understand these critically formative periods of scientific development, and it continues to be essential to an understanding of the field. this updated second edition includes revisions on nearly every page, as well as several sections that have been completely rewritten. For example, the section on Islamic science was 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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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Science Before the Greeks
- 2 The Greeks and the Cosmos
- 3 Aristotle’s Philosophy of Nature
- 4 Hellenistic Natural Philosophy
- 5 The Mathematical Sciences in Antiquity
- 6 Greek and Roman Medicine
- 7 Roman and Early Medieval Science
- 8 Islamic Science
- 9 The Revival of Learning in the West
- 10 The Recovery and Assimilation of Greekand Islamic Science
- 11 The Medieval Cosmos
- 12 The Physics of the Sublunar Region
- 13 Medieval Medicine and Natural History
- 14 The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index