Evidence and interpretation in studies on early science and medicine : essays in honor of John E. Murdoch / edited by Edith Dudley Sylla, William R. Newman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murdoch, John Emery, 1927-2010.

Sylla, Edith Dudley.

Newman, William R., 1955-

Series:

Brill ebook titles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science, Medieval.

Medicine, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 natural world. This book provides a broad range of historical evidence concerning early science, which may be used as a basis for new and more complex historical interpretations. Originally published as Volume XIV, Nos. 1-3 (2009) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine .

Contents:

Preliminary Material / E. Sylla and W.R. Newman

Introduction / William R. Newman and Edith Dudley Sylla

Modes Of Explanation In The Aristotelian Mechanical Problems / Jean De Groot

Structures Of Argument And Concepts Of Force In The Aristotelian Mechanical Problems / Mark Schiefsky

The Simple Ontology of Kalām Atomism: An Outline / A.I. Sabra

The Footprints Of “Experiment” In Early Arabic Optics / Elaheh Kheirandish

The “Experience-Based Medicine” Of The Thirteenth Century / Michael McVaugh

The Intellect Naturalized: Roger Bacon On The Existence Of Corporeal Species Within The Intellect / Yael Raizman-Kedar

Magic And The Physical World In Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism / Steven P. Marrone

The Debate Over The Nature Of Motion: John Buridan, Nicole Oresme And Albert Of Saxony. With An Edition Of John Buridan’s Quaestiones Super Libros Physicorum, Secundum Ultimam Lecturam, Book III, Q. 7 / Johannes M.M.H. Thijssen

John Buridan And Critical Realism / Edith Dudley Sylla

The Significance Of “Chymical Atomism” / William R. Newman

Conjecture, Probabilism, And Provisional Knowledge In Renaissance Meteorology / Craig Martin

Setting Up Copernicus? Astronomy And Natural Philosophy In Giambattista Capuano Da Manfredonia’s Expositio On The Sphere / Michael H. Shank

Copernicus’s Mereological Vision Of The Universe / André Goddu

From “Dragonology” To Meteorology: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy And The Beginning Of The Decline Of The Dragon In China / Qiong Zhang

Baroque Fire (A Note On Early-Modern Angelology) / Anne A. Davenport

Words, Lines, Diagrams, Images: Towards A History Of Scientific Imagery / Christoph Lüthy and Alexis Smets

Index / E. Sylla and W.R. Newman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-95075-4

9786612950759

90-474-4113-3

OCLC:

695982129

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004178786.i-458 DOI