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God's philosophers : how the medieval world laid the foundations of modern science

Author: James Hannam
Publisher: London : Icon Books, 2009.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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God's Philosophers is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. --from publisher description.
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Genre/Form: History
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James Hannam
ISBN: 9781848310704 1848310706 9781848311503 1848311508
OCLC Number: 360205337
Description: ix, 435 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm
Contents: Introduction: 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 Christianised --
Bloody failure: magic and medicine in the Middle Ages --
The secret arts of alchemy an 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 --
Conclusion: A scientific revolution?
Responsibility: James Hannam.

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