TY - BOOK AU - Hannam,James TI - The genesis of science: how the Christian Middle Ages launched the scientific revolution SN - 9781596981553 : AV - Q124.97 .H358 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Regnery Pub. KW - Science, Medieval KW - Religion and science KW - SCIENCE / History KW - bisacsh N1 - Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Icon Books, 2010; 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? ER -