Science and Technology in World History, Volume 2: Early Christianity, the Rise of Islam and the Middle Ages

by David Deming

Overview

Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the second in a roughly chronological series, explores the evolution of science from the advents of Christianity and Islam through the Middle Ages, focusing especially on the historical relationship between science and religion. Specific topics include technological innovations during the Middle Ages; Islamic science; the Crusades; Gothic cathedrals; and the founding of Western universities. Close attention is given to such figures as Paul the Apostle, Hippolytus, Lactantius, Cyril of Alexandria, Hypatia, Cosmas Indicopleustes, and the Prophet Mohammed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786458394
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	05/27/2010
Series:	History/World , #2
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Deming is a professor of Arts & Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. A geophysicist, research scientist and historian, he has written on topics ranging from the history of science to climate change and energy resources.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     
1. Christianity     
Jesus Christ (c. 4 B.C.–A.D. 30)     
Paul the Apostle (c. A.D. 0–60)     
Growth of the Christian Church     
Monasticism     
Attitudes Toward Philosophy     
Demonology     
Attitudes Toward Women     
Charity     

2. The Dark Ages (c. A.D. 500–1000)     
The Intellectual Decline of Europe     
Failure of Ancient Science and Natural Philosophy     
Cosmas Indicopleustes (c. A.D. 490–585)     
Isidore of Seville (A.D. 560–636)     

3. Islam     
The Prophet Mohammed (A.D. 570–632)     
Islamic Expansion     
Islamic Science (c. A.D. 750–1200)     
Decline of Islamic Science and Philosophy     

4. High Middle Ages in Europe (c. A.D. 1000–1300)     
Feudalism and Economic Stagnation     
Medieval Warm Period     
Economic and Technological Progress     
Crusades     
Cathedrals     
Logic and Literature     
Translations     
Aristotle and the Church, 13th Century     
Rise of the Universities     

5. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) and Scholasticism     
Dominican Monk     
Albertus Magnus (c. 1200–1280)     
Reason and Revelation     
Summa Theologica     
Scholastic Synthesis     

6. Roger Bacon (c. 1214–1294)     
Magician and Scientist     
Emergence of Empiricism in the Thirteenth Century     
Oxford and Robert Grosseteste     
Paris, Magnets, and Occult Forces     
Opus Majus     
Compendium Studii Philosophiae     

7. Technological Innovation During the Middle Ages     
Unwritten History     
Agriculture     
Power     
The Mechanical Clock     
Military and Economic Technology     

Conclusion     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index