Science And Literature In The Middle Ages
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Author | : Edward Grant |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 890 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674823600 |
This Source Book explores a millennium of European scientific thought accompanied by critical commentary and annotation; nearly half the selections appear for the first time in the vernacular. Representing "science" in the medieval sense, selections include alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology as well as mathematics, physics, and biology.
Author | : Paul Lacroix |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
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Author | : Seb Falk |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1324002948 |
Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. "Falk’s bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn’t just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight." —Alex Orlando, Discover Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. Born in a rural manor, educated in England’s grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe, we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath who founded the world’s most advanced observatory. The Light Ages offers a gripping story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man in a precarious world and conjures a vivid picture of medieval life as we have never seen it before. An enlightening history that argues that these times weren’t so dark after all, The Light Ages shows how medieval ideas continue to color how we see the world today.
Author | : Paul Lacroix |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Paul Lacroix |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
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Author | : Carl Kears |
Publisher | : Kings College London Medieval |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780953983889 |
Based on papers presented at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2013, and a round table held at the "Being Human" Arts & Humanities Festival, 2013.
Author | : P. L. Jacob |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
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Author | : P. L. Jacob |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 635 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
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Author | : Paul LaCroix |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2017-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781528372732 |
Excerpt from Science and Literature in the Middle Ages: And at the Period of the Renaissance I could only make a succinct, and often incomplete, summary in compiling this book, which comprises so many different subjects; but I have at all events conformed as nearly as possible to the instructions of the late M. Firmin Didot, who urged me to leave to others the display of profound and minute erudition content yourself with being an ingenious, intelligent, and, if possible, an agreeable interpreter; try to make yourself read and under stood by everybody. The greatest successes are achieved less by savants than by vulgarisers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : David C. Lindberg |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226482332 |
In this book, sixteen leading scholars address themselves to providing as full an account of medieval science as current knowledge permits. Designed to be introductory, the authors have directed their chapters to a beginning audience of diverse readers.