The Beginnings of Western Science · The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450 by Lindberg, David C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Preface Chapter 1 - Science before the Greeks

WHAT IS SCIENCE? PREHISTORIC ATTITUDES TOWARD NATURE THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENCE IN EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA

Chapter 2 - The Greeks and the Cosmos

THE WORLD OF HOMER AND HESIOD THE FIRST GREEK PHILOSOPHERS THE MILESIANS AND THE QUESTION OF UNDERLYING REALITY THE QUESTION OF CHANGE THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE PLATO’S WORLD OF FORMS PLATO’S COSMOLOGY THE ACHIEVEMENT OF EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 3 - Aristotle’s Philosophy of Nature

LIFE AND WORKS METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY NATURE AND CHANGE COSMOLOGY MOTION, TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL ARISTOTLE AS A BIOLOGIST ARISTOTLE’S ACHIEVEMENT

Chapter 4 - Hellenistic Natural Philosophy

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION THE LYCEUM AFTER ARISTOTLE EPICUREANS AND STOICS

Chapter 5 - The Mathematical Sciences in Antiquity

THE APPLICATION OF MATHEMATICS TO NATURE GREEK MATHEMATICS EARLY GREEK ASTRONOMY COSMOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS HELLENISTIC PLANETARY ASTRONOMY THE SCIENCE OF OPTICS THE SCIENCE OF WEIGHTS

Chapter 6 - Greek and Roman Medicine

EARLY GREEK MEDICINE HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE HELLENISTIC ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY HELLENISTIC MEDICAL SECTS GALEN AND THE CULMINATION OF HELLENISTIC MEDICINE

Chapter 7 - Roman and Early Medieval Science

GREEKS AND ROMANS POPULARIZERS AND ENCYCLOPEDISTS TRANSLATIONS THE ROLE OF CHRISTIANITY ROMAN AND EARLY MEDIEVAL EDUCATION TWO EARLY MEDIEVAL NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS LEARNING AND SCIENCE IN THE GREEK EAST

Chapter 8 - Islamic Science

EASTWARD DIFFUSION OF GREEK SCIENCE THE BIRTH, EXPANSION, AND HELLENIZATION OF ISLAM TRANSLATION OF GREEK SCIENCE INTO ARABIC ISLAMIC RECEPTION AND APPROPRIATION OF GREEK SCIENCE THE ISLAMIC SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT THE FATE OF ISLAMIC SCIENCE

Chapter 9 - The Revival of Learning in the West

THE MIDDLE AGES CAROLINGIAN REFORMS THE SCHOOLS OF THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE TWELFTH-CENTURY SCHOOLS THE TRANSLATION MOVEMENT THE RISE OF UNIVERSITIES

Chapter 10 - The Recovery and Assimilation of Greek and Islamic Science

THE NEW LEARNING ARISTOTLE IN THE UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM POINTS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION: SCIENCE AS HANDMAIDEN RADICAL ARISTOTELIANISM AND THE CONDEMNATIONS OF 1270 AND 1277 THE RELATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY AFTER 1277

Chapter 11 - The Medieval Cosmos

THE STRUCTURE OF THE COSMOS MATHEMATICAL ASTRONOMY ASTROLOGY THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH

Chapter 12 - The Physics of the Sublunar Region

MATTER, FORM, AND SUBSTANCE COMBINATION AND MIXTURE ALCHEMY CHANGE AND MOTION THE NATURE OF MOTION MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF MOTION THE DYNAMICS OF LOCAL MOTION QUANTIFICATION OF DYNAMICS THE SCIENCE OF OPTICS

Chapter 13 - Medieval Medicine and Natural History

THE MEDICAL TRADITION OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES THE TRANSFORMATION OF WESTERN MEDICINE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITIES DISEASE, DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS, AND THERAPY ANATOMY AND SURGERY DEVELOPMENT OF THE HOSPITAL NATURAL HISTORY

Chapter 14 - The Legacy of Ancient and Medieval Science

THE CONTINUITY QUESTION CANDIDATES FOR REVOLUTIONARY STATUS THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

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