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Books by John Emery Murdoch






Mathematics and its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages(1st Edition)
Essays in Honour of Marshall Clagett
by Edward Grant, John Emery Murdoch
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2010 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-14194-9, ISBN: 0-521-14194-X

"Originally published in 1987, this important synthesis represented the first effort by modern scholars to convey the variety of ways in which medieval scientists and natural philosophers used mathematics and mathematical modes of thought to describe natural phenomena. Eleven distinguished historians of science contributed original essays on the application of mathematics to natural philosophy, astronomy, cosmology, optics and medicine. ..."






Mathematics and its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Essays in Honour of Marshall Clagett
by Edward Grant, John Emery Murdoch, Marshall Clagett, John Emergy Murdoch
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1987 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-32260-7, ISBN: 0-521-32260-X

"Originally published in 1987, this important synthesis represented the first effort by modern scholars to convey the variety of ways in which medieval scientists and natural philosophers used mathematics and mathematical modes of thought to describe natural phenomena. Eleven distinguished historians of science contributed original essays on the application of mathematics to natural philosophy, astronomy, cosmology, optics and medicine. ..."






Album of Science(1st Edition)
The Nineteenth Century
by Leslie Pearce Williams, I. Bernard Cohen, I. Bernhard Cohen, John Emery Murdoch
Hardcover, 413 Pages, Published 1978 by Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-15047-5, ISBN: 0-684-15047-6

"4to xiv + 414 pp, acknowledgments, foreword by I. Bernard Cohen, a note on pictures & sources, introduction, text in 6 parts, followed by bibliography, index. 568 annotated illustrrations-nicely done. The focus is nineteenth century laboratories and field work. maps, diagrams, etc., included in the illustrations. Reddish linen cloth covered boards in colorful DJ."






The Cultural Context of Medieval Learning
Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Philosophy, Science, and Theology in the Middle Ages - ... in the Philosophy and History of Science)
by J.E. Murdoch, Edith Dudley Sylla, John Emery Murdoch
Hardcover, 572 Pages, Published 1975 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-90-277-0560-0, ISBN: 90-277-0560-7

"g. beaujouan: Je suis d'accord. ... Depuis al-Kindi, le couple 'ilm-'amal, science- action, ne se presente pas comme un rassemblement de deux notions dont I'une est superieure a I'autre et la domine (comme la distinction aristotelicienne), mais  ..."






The Cultural Context of Medieval Learning(Reprint)
Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Philosophy, Science, and Theology in the Middle Ages - ... in the Philosophy and History of Science)
by John Emery Murdoch, E.D. Sylla, Edith Dudley Sylla
Paperback, 572 Pages, Published 2013 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-90-277-0587-7, ISBN: 90-277-0587-9

"T. GREGORY: La literature astrologique est tres riche au Xlle siecle et la these selon laquelle plusieurs "sciences du monde" dependent de 1'astrologie est tres repandue ; j'ai rappele un texte significatif de Daniel de Morley, et d'autres auteurs aussi, de Hugo Sanctallensis a Ursus de Calabre, au De VI principiis: ils insistent tous sur le fait que la connaissance des influences des cieux, et donc 1' astrologie, est essentielle, s ..."






Knowledge and the Sciences in Medieval Philosophy
Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy (S.I.E.P.M.) [, Celebrado En] Helsinki 24-29 August 1987
by Monika Asztalos, John Emery Murdoch, Ilkka Niiniluoto
284 Pages, Published 1990
ISBN-13: 978-951-9264-09-7, ISBN: 951-9264-09-4






Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories(1st Edition)
by John Emery Murdoch, Christoph Herbert Lüthy, William Royall Newman, Christoph Luthy, William R. Newman
Hardcover, 612 Pages, Published 2001 by Brill Academic Pub
ISBN-13: 978-90-04-11516-3, ISBN: 90-04-11516-1

"This volume deals with corpuscular matter theory that was to emerge as the dominant model in the seventeenth century. By retracing atomist and corpuscularian ideas to a variety of mutually independent medieval and Renaissance sources in natural philosophy, medicine, alchemy, mathematics, and theology, this volume shows the debt of early modern matter theory to previous traditions and thereby explains its bewildering heterogeneity. The b ..."






The cultural context of medieval learning
proceedings of the first International Colloquium
by Edith Dudley Sylla, John Emery Murdoch
588 Pages, Published 1975
ISBN-13: 978-94-010-1782-4, ISBN: 94-010-1782-4






Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine
Essays in Honor of John E. Murdoch
by Professor Edith Dudley Sylla, William R. Newman, John Emery Murdoch, Annika Hvithamar, William Royall Newman
Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2009 by Brill Academic Pub
ISBN-13: 978-90-04-17878-6, ISBN: 90-04-17878-3

"The studies in this volume present early science in its rich and divergent complexity. Many historians of the Scientific Revolution have used early modern scholasticism to represent pre-seventeenth century science as a whole, but a close look at ancient, medieval, and even early modern scientific writers shows that before the Scientific Revolution - and not only in Europe - there were many and diverse traditions of interpreting the natu ..."






Texts and Contexts in Ancient and Medieval Science
Studies on the Occasion of John E. Murdoch's Seventieth Birthday (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) (Brill's Studies in Itellectual History)
by John Emery Murdoch, Edith Dudley Sylla, Michael Rogers Mcvaugh, Edith Sylla, Professor Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R. Mcvaugh
Hardcover, 330 Pages, Published 1997 by Brill
ISBN-13: 978-90-04-10823-3, ISBN: 90-04-10823-8

"These studies respond to the challenge posed twenty years ago by John E. Murdoch, in whose honor they have been assembled: to interpret ancient and medieval mathematical and scientific texts not just as isolated intellectual productions but as responses to particular settings or contexts. Two broad settings are explored here: that of the wider intellectual culture, where relations among mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy - and a ..."






Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine
Essays in Honor of John E. Murdoch
by Edith Sylla, William R. Newman, John Emery Murdoch
464 Pages, Published 2009 by Brill
ISBN-13: 978-90-474-4113-7, ISBN: 90-474-4113-3

"With these sorts of questions in mind, Abdelhamid Sabra's contribution to this volume takes on a definite sparkle. Almost as it were nailing theses upon the wall , Sabra's article presents the “simple ontology of Kalām atomism” as an alternative ..."

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