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Cambridge History of Science: Medieval Science
ISBN: 9780521594486 | 0521594480
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 8/31/2013
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This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Organized by topic and culture, its essays are written by a group of distinguished scholars and offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of medieval science currently available.
This volume reveals the diversity of goals, contexts, and accomplishments in scientific study during the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley.
This volume reveals the diversity of goals, contexts, and accomplishments in scientific study during the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley.
| General editors' preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Islamic culture and the natural sciences | |
| Islamic mathematics | |
| The mixed mathematical sciences: optics and mechanics in the Islamic Middle Ages | |
| Islamic astronomy | |
| Medicine in medieval Islam | |
| Science in the Jewish communities | |
| Science in the Byzantine Empire | |
| Schools an... MORE | |
| The organization of knowledge: disciplines and practices | |
| Science and the medieval church | |
| Natural knowledge in the early middle ages | |
| Cosmology, astronomy, and mathematics | |
| Early medieval medicine and natural science | |
| Translation and transmission of Greek and Islamic science to Latin Christendom | |
| The twelfth-century renaissance | |
| Medieval alchemy | |
| Change and motion | |
| Cosmology | |
| Astronomy and astrology | |
| The science of light and color, seeing, and knowing | |
| Mathematics | |
| Logic | |
| Geography | |
| Natural history from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries | |
| Anatomy, physiology, and medical theory | |
| Medical practice | |
| Technology and science | |
| Conclusion | |
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