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The genesis of science : how the Christian Middle Ages launched the scientific revolution / by James Hannam.
Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub., 2011.Description: xxiii, 454 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781596981553 :
- 1596981555 :
- Q124.97 .H358 2011
Contents:
The truth about science in the Middle Ages -- After the Fall of Rome : progress in the early Middle Ages -- The mathematical pope -- The rise of reason -- The Twelfth-century Renaissance -- Heresy and reason -- How pagan science was Christianized -- Bloody failure : magic and medicine in the Middle Ages -- The secret arts of alchemy and astrology -- Roger Bacon and the science of light -- The clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford -- The Merton calculators -- The apogee of medieval science -- New horizons -- Humanism and the Reformation -- The polymaths of the Sixteenth Century -- The workings of man : medicine and anatomy -- Humanist astronomy and Nicolaus Copernicus -- Reforming the heavens -- Galileo and Giordano Bruno -- Galileo and the new astronomy -- The trial and triumph of Galileo -- A scientific revolution?
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | Q 124.97 .H358 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5053853 |
The truth about science in the Middle Ages -- After the Fall of Rome : progress in the early Middle Ages -- The mathematical pope -- The rise of reason -- The Twelfth-century Renaissance -- Heresy and reason -- How pagan science was Christianized -- Bloody failure : magic and medicine in the Middle Ages -- The secret arts of alchemy and astrology -- Roger Bacon and the science of light -- The clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford -- The Merton calculators -- The apogee of medieval science -- New horizons -- Humanism and the Reformation -- The polymaths of the Sixteenth Century -- The workings of man : medicine and anatomy -- Humanist astronomy and Nicolaus Copernicus -- Reforming the heavens -- Galileo and Giordano Bruno -- Galileo and the new astronomy -- The trial and triumph of Galileo -- A scientific revolution?
Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Icon Books, 2010.
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