God's philosophers : how the medieval world laid the foundations of modern science / James Hannam.
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TextPublication details: London : Icon, 2010, c2009.Description: ix, 435 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cmISBN: - 9781848311503 (pbk.)
- 1848311508 (pbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A powerful and thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world.
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?