Research Catalog

Title

God's philosophers : how the medieval world laid the foundations of modern science / James Hannam.

Author

Hannam, James

Publication

London : Icon, c2009.

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Details

Description

ix, 435 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Subjects

• 500-1500
• History
• Science, Medieval

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. 359-420) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 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?

ISBN

• 9781848310704 (hbk.)
• 1848310706 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 360205337
• SCSB-10373631

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library