The beginnings of Western science : the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450
History
xviii, 455 pages : illustrations, cartes ; 23 cm
9780226482316, 9780226482309, 0226482316, 0226482308
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Science and its origins
The Greeks and the cosmos
Aristotle's philosophy of nature
Hellenistic natural philosophy
The mathematical sciences in antiquity
Greek and Roman medicine
Roman and early medieval science
Science in Islam
The revival of learning in the West
The recovery and assimilation of Greek and Islamic science
The medieval cosmos
The physics of the sublunar region
Medieval medicine and natural history
The legacy of ancient and medieval science