TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hannam,James
TI  - God's philosophers: how the medieval world laid the foundations of modern science 
SN  - 9781848311503 (pbk.)
PY  - 2010///, c2009
CY  - London
PB  - Icon
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Science, Medieval
N1  - Originally published: 2009; Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-420) and index; Introduction: The truth about science in the Middle Ages -- After the Fall of Rome ; progress inthe early Middle Ages -- The mathematical pope -- The rise of reason -- The twelfth-century Renaissance -- Heresy and reason -- How pagan science was Christianized -- Bloody failure : magic and medicine in the Middle Ages -- The secret arts of alchemy and 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?
ER  -