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008 090520s2009 enkab b 001 0 eng
020 9781848310704 (hbk.)
020 1848310706 (hbk.)
020 9781848311503 (pbk.)
035 (OCoLC)360205337
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050 4 Q124.97|b.H36 2009
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100 1 Hannam, James
245 10 God's philosophers :|bhow the medieval world laid the
foundations of modern science /|cJames Hannam
260 London :|bIcon Books,|c2009
300 ix, 435 p. :|bill., maps ;|c24 cm
504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-420) and index
505 0 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 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 -- Conclusion: A scientific
revolution?
520 0 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
650 0 Science, Medieval