Medieval Science

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521567626
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages written by Edward Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of the Middle Ages as they relate to early modern science.

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674823600
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Source Book in Medieval Science written by Edward Grant and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Source Book explores a millennium of European scientific thought accompanied by critical commentary and annotation; nearly half the selections appear for the first time in the vernacular. Representing "science" in the medieval sense, selections include alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology as well as mathematics, physics, and biology.

Author : Seb Falk
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002948
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science written by Seb Falk and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. "Falk’s bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn’t just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight." —Alex Orlando, Discover Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. Born in a rural manor, educated in England’s grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe, we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath who founded the world’s most advanced observatory. The Light Ages offers a gripping story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man in a precarious world and conjures a vivid picture of medieval life as we have never seen it before. An enlightening history that argues that these times weren’t so dark after all, The Light Ages shows how medieval ideas continue to color how we see the world today.

Author : Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313337543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Technology in Medieval European Life written by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the popular view of medieval Europe as a Dark Age of intellectual stagnation, scientific and technological achievement thrived during this time. As any vacationer to Europe knows, churches and castles remain lasting testaments to the ingenuity of that period in history. Through carefully chosen examples which are presented in easily accessible thematic chapters, Science and Technology in Medieval European Life demonstrates how these two aspects of human achievement, far from being ivory-tower enterprises, impacted the daily life of people in medieval Europe. These topics will also resonate with modern readers in their own daily lives. This reference work begins with an historical introduction that situates medieval science and technology into its social, intellectual and religious context. Among the varied topics found in the chapters are: armor making, waterwheels and waterpower, chimneys, stained glass, communication technology, ship building, medicine both academic and village, mechanical clocks, calendar creation, and astrology. For those interested in pursuing further research into this area of history, the book concludes with a chronology of events, a suggested list of further reading and a glossary.

Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226482332
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science in the Middle Ages written by David C. Lindberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, sixteen leading scholars address themselves to providing as full an account of medieval science as current knowledge permits. Designed to be introductory, the authors have directed their chapters to a beginning audience of diverse readers.

Author : Richard C. Dales
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812292286
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages written by Richard C. Dales and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientists of the twelfth century were daring, original, inventive, and above all determined to discover purely rational explanations of natural phenomena. Their intense interest in the natural world for its own sake, their habits of precise observation, and the high value they place on man as a rational being portend a new age in the history of scientific thought. This book offers a comprehensive sampling of medieval scientific thought in the context of an historical narrative.

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521292948
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physical Science in the Middle Ages written by Edward Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charlie Samuels
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1433941406
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Science (500 – 1500) written by Charlie Samuels and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights scientific and technological innovations prior to 1500, including paper, windmills, bridges, compasses, clocks, and guns.

Author : Sa`id al-Andalusi
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029279231X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science in the Medieval World written by Sa`id al-Andalusi and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Middle Ages, a thriving center for learning and research was Muslim Spain, where students gathered to consult Arabic manuscripts of earlier scientific works and study with famous teachers. One of these teachers was Sa'id al-Andalusi, who in 1068 wrote Kitab Tabaqat al-'Umam, or "Book of the Categories of Nations," which recorded the contributions to science of all known nations. Today, it is one of few surviving medieval Spanish Muslim texts, and this is its first English translation. Science ('ulum), as used by Sa'id and other scholars of that period, is a broad term covering virtually all aspects of human knowledge. After initial discussions of the categories of nations that did or did not cultivate science, Sa'id details the specific contribution of nine nations or peoples-India, Persia, Chaldea, Greece, Rome, Egypt, the Arab Orient, al-Andalus, and the Hebrews. He includes the names of many individual scientists and scholars and describes their various contributions to knowledge, making his book a significant work of reference as well as history.

Author : James Hannam
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596982055
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genesis of Science written by James Hannam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Not-So-Dark Dark Ages What they forgot to teach you in school: People in the Middle Ages did not think the world was flat The Inquisition never executed anyone because of their scientific ideologies It was medieval scientific discoveries, including various methods, that made possible Western civilization’s “Scientific Revolution” As a physicist and historian of science James Hannam debunks myths of the Middle Ages in his brilliant book The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution. Without the medieval scholars, there would be no modern science. Discover the Dark Ages and their inventions, research methods, and what conclusions they actually made about the shape of the world.