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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Edward Grant. Contents Early Middle Ages. EARLY MIDDLE AGES The Latin Encyclopedists 1. On the Quadrivium , or Four Mathematical Sciences 3 Isidore of Seville 2. On Arithmetic 17 Boethius 3. On the Universe and Its Parts 25 Isidore of ...
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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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