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Medieval science and technology / Elspeth Whitney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitney, Elspeth.
- Series:
- Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science, Medieval.
- Technology--History--To 1500.
- Technology.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Overview and History: The Classical Tradition and the Early Middle Ages 1
- Chapter 2 Institutional History: The High and Late Middle Ages 17
- Chapter 3 Aristotle, Plato, and the Medieval Scientific Worldview 37
- Chapter 4 The Exact Sciences 59
- Chapter 5 The Biological and Earth Sciences 89
- Chapter 6 Medieval Technology 111
- Chapter 7 The Impact of Medieval Science and Technology 139
- Adelard of Bath 147
- Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) 148
- Alhazen (Ibn al-Haythan) 149
- Aristotle 150
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 152
- Roger Bacon 153
- Thomas Bradwardine 155
- Filippo Brunelleschi 156
- John Buridan 157
- Giovanni Dondi 158
- Leonardo Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa) 159
- Galen of Pergamum 159
- Gerard of Cremona 161
- Robert Grosseteste 161
- Hildegard of Bingen 162
- Isidore of Seville 165
- Nicole Oresme 166
- Peter Peregrinus (Peter of Maricourt) 167
- Plato 168
- Claudius Ptolemy 170
- Trotula 171
- Primary Documents 173
- 1 Aristotle On Final Causes in Nature; from the Physics 173
- 2 Galen (129-199 or 200) On Female Physiology and Inferiority 176
- 3 Trotula On the Diseases of Women (Eleventh Century) 177
- 4 Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1142) On the Important Scientific Questions in the Twelfth Century; from His Questions on Natural Science 185
- 5 Albertus Magnus (c. 1193-1280) On Animals: The Rabbit and Spiders 189
- 6 Guy de Chauliac (c. 1290-c. 1367-70), Medieval Surgeon, On What Makes a Good Doctor 193
- 7 A Medieval Herbal (Thirteenth Century) 196
- 8 Nicole Oresme (c. 1325-82) and Arguments for the Diurnal Rotation of the Earth 202
- 9 Hugh of St. Victor On the Mechanical Arts 206
- 10 Roger Bacon (c. 1219-92) On Experimental Science; from the Opus maius 213
- 11 A Cistercian Monk Praises the Mechanized Water System of Clairvaux Abbey 219
- 12 Medieval Alchemy 221.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313325197
- OCLC:
- 54487705
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