Science in the Middle Ages - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226482332 ISBN 13: 9780226482330

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1980

Riassunto

Despite the intensive research of the past quarter century, there still is no single book that examines all major aspects of the medieval scientific enterprise in depth. This illustrated volume is meant to fill that gap. In it sixteen leading scholars address themselves to topics central to their research, providing as full an account of medieval science as current knowledge permits. Although the book is definitive, it is also introductory, for the authors have directed their chapters to a beginning audience of diverse readers, including undergraduates, scholars specializing in other fields, and the interested lay reader.

The book is not encylopedic, for it does not attempt to provide all relevant factual data; rather, it attempts to interpret major developments in each of the disciplines that made up the medieval scientific world. Data are not absent, but their function is to support and illustrate generalizations about the changing shape of medieval science. The editor, David C. Lindberg, has written a Preface in which he discusses the growth of scholarship in this field in the twentieth century.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David C. Lindberg is professor of the history of science at the University of Wisconsin. His numerous publications include Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226482332
• ISBN 13: 9780226482330
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 566
• Redattore: Lindberg David C.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile