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100 1 $aLindberg, David C.
245 14 $aThe beginnings of western science :$bthe European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, prehistory to A.D. 1450 /$cDavid C. Lindberg.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2007.
300 $axvi, 488 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [413]-461) and index.
505 0 $a1. Science Before the Greeks -- What Is Science? -- Prehistoric Attitudes toward Nature -- The Beginnings of Science in Egypt and Mesopotamia -- 2. The Greeks and the Cosmos -- The World of Homer and Hesiod -- The First Greek Philosophers -- The Milesians and the Question of Underlying Reality -- The Question of Change -- The Problem of Knowledge -- Plato's World of Forms -- Plato's Cosmology -- The Achievement of Early Greek Philosophy -- 3. Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature -- Life and Works -- Metaphysics and Epistemology -- Nature and Change -- Cosmology -- Motion, Terrestrial and Celestial -- Aristotle as a Biologist -- Aristotle's Achievement -- 4. Hellenistic Natural Philosophy -- Schools and Education -- The Lyceum after Aristotle -- Epicureans and Stoics -- 5. The Mathematical Sciences in Antiquity -- The Application of Mathematics to Nature -- Greek Mathematics -- Early Greek Astronomy -- Cosmological Developments -- Hellenistic Planetary Astronomy -- The Science of Optics -- The Science of Weights -- 6. Greek and Roman Medicine -- Early Greek Medicine -- Hippocratic Medicine -- Hellenistic Anatomy and Physiology -- Hellenistic Medical Sects -- Galen and the Culmination of Hellenistic Medicine -- 7. Roman and Early Medieval Science -- Greeks and Romans -- Popularizers and Encyclopedists -- Translations -- The Role of Christianity -- Roman and Early Medieval Education -- Two Early Medieval Natural Philosophers -- Learning and Science in the Greek East -- 8. Islamic Science -- Eastward Diffusion of Greek Science -- The Birth, Expansion, and Hellenization of Islam -- Translation of Greek Science into Arabic -- Islamic Reception and Appropriation of Greek Science -- The Islamic Scientific Achievement -- The Fate of Islamic Science -- 9. The Revival of Learning in the West -- The Middle Ages -- Carolingian Reforms -- The Schools of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- Natural Philosophy in the Twelfth-Century Schools -- The Translation Movement -- The Rise of Universities -- 10. The Recovery and Assimilation of Greek and Islamic Science -- The New Learning -- Aristotle in the University Curriculum -- Points of Conflict -- Resolution: Science as Handmaiden -- Radical Aristotelianism and the Condemnations of 1270 and 1277 -- The Relations of Philosophy and Theology After 1277 -- 11. The Medieval Cosmos -- The Structure of the Cosmos -- Mathematical Astronomy -- Astrology -- The Surface of the Earth -- 12. The Physics of the Sublunar Region -- Matter, Form, and Substance -- Combination and Mixture -- Alchemy -- Change and Motion -- The Nature of Motion -- Mathematical Description of Motion -- The Dynamics of Local Motion -- Quantification of Dynamics -- The Science of Optics -- 13. Medieval Medicine and Natural History -- The Medical Tradition of the Early Middle Ages -- The Transformation of Western Medicine -- Medical Practitioners -- Medicine in the Universities -- Disease, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapy -- Anatomy and Surgery -- Development of the Hospital -- Natural History -- 14. The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science -- The Continuity Question -- Candidates for Revolutionary Status -- The Scientific Revolution.
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