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Author : Edward Grant,John Emery Murdoch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521322607
Eleven distinguished historians of science explore natural philosophy and mathematics in the Middle Ages.
Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813217383
In this volume, distinguished scholar Edward Grant identifies the vital elements that contributed to the creation of a widespread interest in natural philosophy, which has been characterized as the "Great Mother of the Sciences."
Author : Paul J.J.M. Bakker
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789462700468
CONTENTS Paul J.J.M BakkerIntroduction Cristina CeramiL’éternel par soi Jean-Baptiste BrenetAlexandre d’Aphrodise ou le matérialiste malgré lui Dag Nikolaus HasseAverroes’ Critique of Ptolemy and Its Reception by John of Jandun andAgostino Nifo Silvia DonatiIs Celestial Motion a Natural Motion? Cecilia TrifogliThe Reception of Averroes’ View on Motion in the Latin West Edith Dudley SyllaAverroes and Fourteenth-Century Theories of Alteration Craig MartinProvidence and Seventeenth-Century Attacks on Averroes Bibliography Index Codicum Manu ScriptorumIndex Nominum
Author : Ivor Grattan-Guiness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134887552
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1796 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134957507
* Examines the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences in a cultural context, tracing their evolution from ancient times up to the twentieth century * 176 articles contributed by authors of 18 nationalities * Chronological table of main events in the development of mathematics * Fully integrated index of people, events and topics * Annotated bibliographies of both classic and contemporary sources * Unique coverage of Ancient and non-Western traditions of mathematics
Author : Edith Sylla,Michael R. McVaugh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004247321
Written in honor of John E. Murdoch's seventieth birthday, the essays collected here focus on the interpretation of ancient and scientific texts not just as isolated intellectual productions but as responses to particular settings or contexts.
Author : T. M. Rudavsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192557650
T. M. Rudavsky presents a new account of the development of Jewish philosophy from the tenth century to Spinoza in the seventeenth, viewed as part of an ongoing dialogue with medieval Christian and Islamic thought. Her aim is to provide a broad historical survey of major figures and schools within the medieval Jewish tradition, focusing on the tensions between Judaism and rational thought. This is reflected in particular philosophical controversies across a wide range of issues in metaphysics, language, cosmology, and philosophical theology. The book illuminates our understanding of medieval thought by offering a much richer view of the Jewish philosophical tradition, informed by the considerable recent research that has been done in this area.
Author : James M. Lattis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226469263
Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books—the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view. By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.
Author : Dan Burton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004153707
In this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.
Author : Andrew Younan
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813236124
"What is "A Law of Nature"? It's a question that's vexed philosophers and scientists ever since Descartes first coined the term. Fr. Andrew Younan explores it in this insightful book. After carefully reviewing the positions of Humeans and Anti-Humeans, he employs the philosophy of Aristotle and Aquinas to argue for an essentialist understanding. His study leads him back to the beginnings of modern science and then forward to quantum mechanics. The philosophical account of how the laws of nature arise from observed regularities in the world is followed by a theological discussion of the nature and action of the Lawgiver."--from the foreword by Michael J. Dodds, OP To borrow a phrase from Galileo: What does it mean that the story of the creation is "written in the language of mathematics?" This book is an attempt to understand the natural world, its consistency, and the ontology of what we call laws of nature, with a special focus on their mathematical expression. It does this by arguing in favor of the Essentialist interpretation over that of the Humean and Anti-Humean accounts. It re-examines and critiques Descartes' notion of laws of nature following from God's activity in the world as mover of extended bodies, as well as Hume's arguments against causality and induction. It then presents an Aristotelian-Thomistic account of laws of nature based on mathematical abstraction, necessity, and teleology, finally offering a definition for laws of nature within this framework.
Author : Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen,Lodi W. Nauta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004108319
The German philosophical culture of the Middle Ages is inextricable linked to the thought of Albert the Great. This volume brings together 14 papers, which deal with Albert's influence from the points of view of mysticism, philosophy, and the history of universities.
Author : Elspeth Whitney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313061233
Medieval science and technology was firmly rooted in Aristotelian explanations of the physical world. This book begins by introducing the basic concepts of the classical tradition, and explains how these ideas were promulgated by the ancient Greeks, preserved and commented on by the great Muslim scholars of the early middle ages, and finally transmitted to western Europe as that region began to grow and expand around 1100 C.E. Specific avenues of inquiry such as astronomy and astrology, optics, chemistry and alchemy, zoology, geography, and medicine are described on their own terms. Rounding out the work is a discussion of the many technological innovations of the medieval age, such as mechanical clocks, firearms, and the blast furnace, that profoundly altered the course of European and world history. Biographical sketches provide insight into the lives and accomplishments of 20 men and women, Christian, Muslim, and pagan, whose works profoundly shaped the era's scientific spirit. Eleven annotated key primary documents afford a fascinating glimpse into how the best minds of the time posed their questions and their answers. An annotated timeline, glossary of terms, several illustrations, and an annotated bibliography round out the work. Medieval scientists, or natural philosophers, as they were then called, were powerfully influenced by the authority of older traditions, including Christianity and scientific ideas dating back to Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy. Yet their respect for these traditions was balanced by an equal respect for reason and the spirit of inquiry. Religious faith, far from dampening scientific and technological innovation, actually buttressed their efforts to understand the natural world as it was generally taken for granted that knowledge acquired through reason would harmonize with religious beliefs. While medieval science and technology did not seek to overthrow the prevailing worldviews of the time, their accomplishments did lay the groundwork for the scientific revolution and European global expansion of the early modern age.
Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521003377
This book shows how the Age of Reason actually began during the late Middle Ages.
Author : James M. Powell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815625561
In addition to sections devoted to Latin paleography, diplomatics, computer-assisted research, numismatics, archaeology, problems in chronology, and prospography, this text describes state-of-the-art research methodology and critical approaches to English literature, Latin philosophies, law, science, art and music.
Author : Peter Harrison,Ronald L. Numbers,Michael H. Shank
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226318035
When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early modern Europe, which saw the triumph of Copernicanism and the birth of experimental science, while yet another view is that the appearance of science was postponed until the nineteenth century. Rather than posit a modern definition of science and search for evidence of it in the past, the contributors to Wrestling with Nature examine how students of nature themselves, in various cultures and periods of history, have understood and represented their work. The aim of each chapter is to explain the content, goals, methods, practices, and institutions associated with the investigation of nature and to articulate the strengths, limitations, and boundaries of these efforts from the perspective of the researchers themselves. With contributions from experts representing different historical periods and different disciplinary specializations, this volume offers a fresh perspective on the history of science and on what it meant, in other times and places, to wrestle with nature.