Mathematics and its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Marshall Clagett - Rilegato

 
9780521322607: Mathematics and its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Marshall Clagett
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ISBN 10: 052132260X ISBN 13: 9780521322607
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1987

Sinossi

Eleven distinguished historians of science explore natural philosophy and mathematics in the Middle Ages.

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Descrizione del libro

Originally published in 1987, this important synthesis represents the variety of ways in which medieval scientists and natural philosophers used mathematics and mathematical modes of thought to describe natural phenomena. Eleven distinguished historians of science contributed original essays on the application of mathematics to natural philosophy, astronomy, cosmology, optics and medicine.

Contenuti

List of contributors; Introduction Edward Grant and John E. Murdoch; Pure Mathematics: 1. The medieval tradition of Archimedes' Sphere and Cylinder Wilbur Knorr; Applied Mathematics: 2. Colonizing the world for mathematics: the diversity of medieval strategies A. George Molland; Part I. Natural Philosophy: 3. Mathematical physics and imagination in the work of the Oxford Calculators: Roger Swineshead's On Natural Motions Edith D. Sylla; 4. Thomas Bradwardine: mathematics and continuity in the fourteenth century John E. Murdoch; Part II. Astronomy and Cosmology: 5. Plinian astronomical diagrams in the early Middle Ages Bruce Eastwood; 6. Coordinates and categories: the graphical representation of functions in medieval astronomy J. D. North; 7. Eccentrics and epicycles in medieval cosmology Edward Grant; Part III. Optics: 8. Psychology versus mathematics: Ptolemy and Alhazen on the moon illusion A. I. Sabra; 9. Roger Bacon and the origins of perspectiva in the West David C. Lindberg; 10. Mathematics and experiement in Witelo's Perspectiva Sabetai Unguru; Part IV. Medicine: 11. The two faces of a medical career: Jordanus de Turre of Motpellier Michael R. McVaugh; Publications of Marshall Clagett; Index.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
1987
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
052132260X
ISBN 13 
9780521322607
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
352
Redattore
Grant Edward, Murdoch John Emery
Contatto del produttore
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9780521141949: Mathematics and its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Marshall Clagett

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  052114194X ISBN 13:  9780521141949
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010
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