Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts / Edition 1

by Edward Grant

Overview

Contrary to prevailing opinion, the roots of modern science were planted in the ancient and medieval worlds long before the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume illustrates the developments and discoveries that culminated in the Revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900521567625
Publication date:	10/28/1996
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The Roman Empire and the first six centuries of Christianity; 2. The new beginning: the age of translation in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; 3. The medieval university; 4. What the Middle Ages inherited from Aristotle; 5. The reception and impact of Aristotelian learning and the reaction of the Church and its theologians; 6. What the Middle Ages did with its Aristotelian legacy; 7. Medieval natural philosophy, Aristotelians, and Aristotelianism; 8. How the foundations of early modern science were laid in the Middle Ages.