"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. ..."
"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. ..."
"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."
"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 JohnEmeryMurdoch, 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 ..."
"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 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."