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020 $a9781848310704 (hbk.)
020 $a1848310706 (hbk.)
024 $a60001166295
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100 1 $aHannam, James.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009123122
245 10 $aGod's philosophers :$bhow the medieval world laid the foundations of modern science /$cJames Hannam.
260 $aLondon :$bIcon,$c2009.
300 $aix, 435 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 395-420) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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?.
520 0 $aGod'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 $aScience, Medieval.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118613
852 00 $bglx$hQ124.97$i.H36 2009g