The beginnings of western science : the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, prehistory to A.D. 1450.
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| Formato: | Ouvrage |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2007].
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. 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.