First edition. Translated and edited by Edward Grant. First in an intended series of translations of Nicole Oresme's works. The two texts presented and discussed in this volume deal with velocity and astronomy. Also contains a short biography on Oresme. Black and white reproductions of eleven pages from the two texts. xxii, 466 pages plus 11 plates. cloth. large 8vo..

Nicole Oresme, De Proportionibus Proportionum and Ad Pauca Respicientes (Medieval Science Pub Ser)

Science & Math

Grant, Edward

Mathematics

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Many people believe that during the Middle Ages, Christianity was actively hostile toward science (then known as natural philosophy) and impeded its progress. This comprehensive survey of science and religion during the period between the lives of Aristotle and Copernicus demonstrates how this was not the case. Medieval theologians were not hostile to learning natural philosophy, but embraced it. Had they had not done so, the science that developed during the Scientific Revolution would not―and could not―have occurred. Students and lay readers will learn how the roots of much of the scientific culture of today originated with the religious thinkers of the Middle Ages.
Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 thoroughly covers the relationship between science and religion in the medieval period, and provides many resources for the student or lay reader. The book discusses how the influx of Greek and Arabic science in the 12th and 13th centuries― especially the works of Aristotle in logic and natural philosophy―dramatically changed how science was viewed in Western Europe. The volume demonstrates how medieval universities and their teachers disseminated a positive attitude toward rational inquiry and made it possible for Western Europe to become oriented toward science.

Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus (Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion)

History

World

Greenwood

This concise introduction to the history of physical science in the Middle Ages begins with a description of the feeble state of early medieval science and its revitalization during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as evidenced by the explosion of knowledge represented by extensive translations of Greek and Arabic treatises. The content and concepts that came to govern science from the late twelfth century onwards were powerfully shaped and dominated by the science and philosophy of Aristotle. It is, therefore, by focussing attention on problems and controversies associated with Aristotelian science that the reader is introduced to the significant scientific developments and interpretations formulated in the later Middle Ages. The concluding chapter presents a new interpretation of the medieval failure to abandon the physics and cosmology of Aristotle and explains why, despite serious criticisms, they were not generally repudiated during this period. As detailed critical bibliography completes the work.

Physical Science in the Middle Ages (Studies in the History of American Education Series)

History & Philosophy

John Wiley&Sons

The Age of Reason associated with the names of Descartes, Newton, Hobbes, and the French philosophers, actually began in the universities that first emerged in the late Middle Ages (1100 to 1600) when the first large scale institutionalization of reason in the history of civilization occurred. This study shows how reason was used in the university subjects of logic, natural philosophy, and theology, and to a much lesser extent in medicine and law. The final chapter describes how the Middle Ages acquired an undeserved reputation as an age of superstition, barbarism, and unreason.

God and Reason in the Middle Ages

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

Medieval cosmology was a fusion of pagan Greek ideas and biblical descriptions of the world, especially the creation account in Genesis. Because cosmology was based on discussions of the relevant works of Aristotle, primary responsibility for its study fell to scholastic theologians and natural philosophers in the universities of western Europe from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. Edward Grant describes the extraordinary range of themes, ideas, and arguments that constituted scholastic cosmology for approximately five hundred years, from around 1200 to 1700. Primary emphasis is placed on the world as a whole, what might lie beyond it, and the celestial region, which extended from the Moon to the outermost convex surface of the cosmos. Another important aspect of this study is how natural philosophers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries responded to the new interpretations of a heliocentric instead of a geoheliocentric Aristotelian cosmology.

Planets, Stars, and Orbs 2 Volume Paperback Set: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200–1687 (The Medieval Cosmos, 1200–1687)

Europe

Physical Science in the Middle Ages (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

This concise introduction to the history of physical science in the Middle Ages begins with a description of the feeble state of early medieval science and its revitalization during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as evidenced by the explosion of knowledge represented by extensive translations of Greek and Arabic treatises. The content and concepts that came to govern science from the late twelfth century onwards were powerfully shaped and dominated by the science and philosophy of Aristotle. It is, therefore, by focussing attention on problems and controversies associated with Aristotelian science that the reader is introduced to the significant scientific developments and interpretations formulated in the later Middle Ages. The concluding chapter presents a new interpretation of the medieval failure to abandon the physics and cosmology of Aristotle and explains why, despite serious criticisms, they were not generally repudiated during this period. As detailed critical bibliography completes the work.

Planets, Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200–1687

The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)

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. Indeed, that revolution would have been inconceivable without the cumulative antecedent efforts of three great civilizations: Greek, Islamic, and Latin. With the scientific riches it derived by translation from Greco-Islamic sources in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Christian Latin civilization of Western Europe began the last leg of the intellectual journey that culminated in a scientific revolution that transformed the world. The factors that produced this unique achievement are found in the way Christianity developed in the West, and in the invention of the university in 1200. A reference for historians of science or those interested in medieval history, this volume illustrates the developments and discoveries that culminated in the Scientific Revolution.

Astronomy & Space Science

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Nicole Oresme, De Proportionibus Proportionum and Ad Pauca Respicientes (Medieval Science Pub Ser)

Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus (Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion)

Physical Science in the Middle Ages (Studies in the History of American Education Series)

God and Reason in the Middle Ages

Planets, Stars, and Orbs 2 Volume Paperback Set: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200–1687 (The Medieval Cosmos, 1200–1687)

Physical Science in the Middle Ages (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)

Physical Science in the Middle Ages (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)

Planets, Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200–1687

The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)

Planets, Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200–1687