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Q124.95.L55 1992
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TITLE:
The beginnings of Western science : the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 / David C. Lindberg.
AUTHOR:
Lindberg, David C.
PUBLISHED:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
DESCRIPTION:
xviii, 455 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
NOTES:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-440) and index.
NOTES:
Science and its origins -- The Greeks and the cosmos -- Aristotle's philosophy of nature -- Hellenistic natural philosophy -- The mathematical sciences in antiquity -- Greek and Roman medicine -- Roman and early medieval science -- Science in Islam -- The revival of learning in the West -- The recovery and assimilation of Greek and Islamic science -- The medieval cosmos -- The physics of the sublunar region -- Medieval medicine and natural history -- The legacy of ancient and medieval science.
SUBJECT:
Science, Ancient--History.
SUBJECT:
Science, Medieval--History.
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