Mathematics And Its Applications To Science And Natural Philosophy In The Middle Ages
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Author | : Edward Grant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1987-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 052132260X |
Download Mathematics and Its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Eleven distinguished historians of science explore natural philosophy and mathematics in the Middle Ages.
Author | : George Molland |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2024-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 104023156X |
Download Mathematics and the Medieval Ancestry of Physics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The central theme of this volume lies in the medieval consciousness of mathematics, and the variety of strategies adopted to apply it in other areas, notably natural philosophy. In diachromic terms, Dr Molland considers ways in which ancient mathematics (particularly geometry) was assimilated in the Middle Ages, and how it was radically transformed in the 17th century, especially by Descartes. A pervasive concern is with ideas of scientific progress: the author argues that medieval commentatorial and disputational modes encouraged probing attitudes to existing knowledge, aimed at deepening individual understanding, rather than more aggressive endeavours to advance public knowledge characteristic of later periods. What brought about this change is the subject of several studies here; others form more specifically on individual scholars, in particular the important figure of Roger Bacon.
Author | : Edward Grant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2007-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521869315 |
Download A History of Natural Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
Author | : Edward Grant |
Publisher | : Variorum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Studies in Medieval Science and Natural Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : G. Freeland |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2013-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9401594783 |
Download 1543 and All That Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Seien ce aims to provide a distinctive publication of essays on a connected outlet for their work. Each volume comprises a group theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. In each volume, a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand. Contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out, however, and are indeed actively encouraged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question. Earlier volumes in the series have been welcomed for significantly advancing the discussion of the topics they have dealt with. I believe that the present volume will be greeted equally enthusiastically by readers in many parts of the world. R. W Horne General Editor Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece. Andreas Vesalius, Sixth Plate ofthe Muscles, woodcut, designed by Jan Steven van Kalkar, from De humani corporis fabrica (Basel, 1543). (Photo. Scientific Illustration; repr. by kind permission of the University of New South Wales Library. ) In: GUY FREELAND, 'Introduction: In Praise of Toothing-Stones' Fig. 1. Michael Esson, Vesalian Interpretation 3 (1992). (Repr. by kind permission ofthe Artist. ) Fig. 2. Reliefs, University of Padua.
Author | : Prof G H R Parkinson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2023-05-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000941957 |
Download The Renaissance and 17th Century Rationalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This fourth volume traces the history of Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth century rationalism, covering Descartes and the birth of modern philosophy.
Author | : James Franklin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0801865697 |
Download The Science of Conjecture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Science of Conjecture provides a history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : H Darrel Rutkin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2019-04-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030107795 |
Download Sapientia Astrologica: Astrology, Magic and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250-1800 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era. It introduces a framework for understanding both its former centrality and its later removal from legitimate knowledge and practice. The discussion reconstructs the changing roles of astrology in Western science, theology, and culture from 1250 to 1500. The author considers both the how and the why. He analyzes and integrates a broad range of sources. This analysis shows that the history of astrology—in particular, the story of the protracted criticism and ultimate removal of astrology from the realm of legitimate knowledge and practice—is crucial for fully understanding the transition from premodern Aristotelian-Ptolemaic natural philosophy to modern Newtonian science. This removal, the author argues, was neither obvious nor unproblematic. Astrology was not some sort of magical nebulous hodge-podge of beliefs. Rather, astrology emerged in the 13th century as a richly mathematical system that served to integrate astronomy and natural philosophy, precisely the aim of the “New Science” of the 17th century. As such, it becomes a fundamentally important historical question to determine why this promising astrological synthesis was rejected in favor of a rather different mathematical natural philosophy—and one with a very different causal structure than Aristotle's.
Author | : Andrew Cunningham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1351219529 |
Download The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present. Historians usually tend to assume such continuous identities of present attitudes and activities with past ones, and rarely question them; the contention here is that this gives us a false image of the very things in the past that we went to look for.
Author | : Ann Elizabeth Moyer |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780472112289 |
Download The Philosophers' Game Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An exploration of the history of a mathematical board game played in medieval and Renaissance Europe