Science, art, and nature in medieval and modern thought / A.C. Crombie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crombie, A. C. (Alistair Cameron), 1915-1996.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Europe--History.

Science.

Europe.

History.

Science--Philosophy--History.

Science--Philosophy.

Philosophy, European--History.

Philosophy, European.

Physical Description:

xv, 516 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1996.

Summary:

A.C. Crombie sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and the diversification of both vision and argument by scientific experience and by interaction with the wider contexts of intellectual culture, constitute the long history of European scientific thought. Underlying that development have been specific commitments to conceptions of nature and of Science and its intellectual and moral assumptions, accompanied by a recurrent critique; their diversification has generated a series of different styles of scientific thinking and of making theoretical and practical decisions which he describes and analyses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1852850671

OCLC:

33666078