Edward Grant describes the extraordinary range of themes, ideas, and arguments that constituted scholastic cosmology for approximately five hundred years, from around 1200 to 1700.

This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.

This book shows how the Age of Reason actually began during the late Middle Ages.

Contents: Introduction; (I) The Diversity of the Aristotelian Reaction; (II) The Basic Defense of Aristotelian Cosmology; (III) The Earth¿s Centrality: (A) The Three Centers; (B) The Terraqueous Sphere; (IV) The Earth¿s Immobility: (A) ...

Provides a description of the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries.

This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of the Middle Ages as they relate to early modern science.

This is a print on demand publication.

Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world.

In this volume, distinguished scholar Edward Grant identifies the vital elements that contributed to the creation of a widespread interest in natural philosophy, which has been characterized as the "Great Mother of the Sciences."