A Source Book in Medieval ScienceEdward Grant Harvard University Press, 1974 - 864 sider Modern scholarship has exposed the intrinsic importance of medieval science and confirmed its role in preserving and transmitting Greek and Arabic achievements. This Source Book offers a rare opportunity to explore more than ten centuries of European scientific thought. In it are approximately 190 selections by about 85 authors, most of them from the Latin West. Nearly half of the selections appear here for the first time in any vernacular translation. The readings, a number of them complete treatises, have been chosen to represent "science" in a medieval rather than a modern sense. Thus, insofar as they are relevant to medieval science, selections have been drawn from works on alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology. Most of the book, however, reflects medieval understanding of, and achievements in, the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences. Critical commentary and annotation accompany the selections. An appendix contains brief biographies of all authors. This book will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars in the history of science. |
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... Oresme 26. Infinite Series 131 Nicole Oresme PROPORTIONS 27. The Definitions of Book V of Euclid's Elements in a Thirteenth - Century Version , and Commentary 136 Campanus of Novara 28. An Algorism of Ratios : Manipulation of Rational ...
... Oresme COSMOLOGY 67. On the Possible Diurnal Rotation of the Earth 494 Introduction 494 Edward Grant 1. Ptolemy : The Immobility of the Earth in the Center of the World 494 2. St. Thomas Aquinas : The Immobility of the Earth in the ...
... Oresme 72. On the Existence of an Imaginary Infinite Void Space Beyond the Finite Cosmos 554 Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius : Void Beyond the Cosmos Lacks Matter but Not Spirit 73. On a God - filled Extramundane Infinite Void Space ...
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Number Theory and Indeterminate 37 Questions on the Two Books of Aristotles | 24 |
EARLY MIDDLE AGES 14 An Objection to Theological Restrictions | 50 |
On the Order of the Planets 27 Hugh of St Victor | 59 |
On Comets 539 OCEANOGRAPHY | 70 |
On Ocean and Tides 30 Introduction | 77 |
A List of Translations Made from Arabic into 19 On the Importance of Studying | 90 |
A Proposition on Mathematical 38 Questions on The Four Books of Aristotles | 207 |
Manipulation of MOTION | 227 |
THE ELEMENTS OF ASTRONOMY | 442 |
Extracts from the Alfonsine Tables and Rules | 465 |
ASTROLOGY | 488 |
COSMOLOGY | 494 |
On Saving the Phenomena and the Reality | 516 |
On the Commensurability or Incommensura | 530 |
On the Existence of an Imaginary Infinite Biology | 554 |
On a Godfilled Extramundane Infinite Void 84 An Attempt at a Scientific Description | 654 |
Rational and Irrational Exponents William of Ockham | 234 |
Two Medieval Versions of Archimedes | 243 |
Constructions from an Applied Resistant Medium? The Responses of Aver | 253 |
Trigonometry of the Sine 188 Averroes | 265 |
Aristotles Major Physical Treatises St Thomas Aquinas | 272 |
Questions on the Four Books of Aristotles 49 On the Cause of Acceleration of Freefalling | 280 |
Contrary Motions | 284 |
Mathematical Representations | 292 |
ATOMISM | 312 |
ON VACUUM | 324 |
Motion in a Hypothetical Void | 334 |
MEASUREMENT OF FORCES | 360 |
MAGNETISM | 367 |
OPTICS | 375 |
Robert Grosseteste and the Revival of Optics | 384 |
Late ThirteenthCentury Synthesis | 392 |
Late Medieval Optics | 435 |
Alchemy and Chemistry | 689 |
Twentysix Arguments against Alchemy and Albertus Magnus | 699 |
How Elements Persist in a Compound 603 Isidore of Seville | 705 |
On the Formation of Stones and SCIENTIFIC METHOD | 720 |
GEOGRAPHY Master Nicholas | 727 |
PRACTICE | 742 |
Interpretation of the Urine | 748 |
A METHOD OF MEDICAL PRACTICE | 760 |
How to Combat Spells Preventing | 767 |
Bubonic Plague | 773 |
Compound Medicines | 787 |
Salernitan Surgery | 795 |
The Treatment of Wounds | 802 |
BRIEF AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES | 809 |
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