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Science, Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought.
The author 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 volume explores science, art and nature in medieval and modern thought.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Preface; Further Bibliography of A.C. Crombie; 1 Designed in the Mind: Western visions of Science, Nature and Humankind; 2 The Western Experience of Scientific Objectivity; 3 Historical Perceptions of Medieval Science; 4 Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168-1253); 5 Roger Bacon (c. 1219-1292); 6 Infinite Power and the Laws of Nature: A Medieval Speculation; 7 Experimental Science and the Rational Artist in Early Modern Europe; 8 Mathematics and Platonism in the Sixteenth-Century Italian Universities and in Jesuit Educational Policy.
- 9 Sources of Galileo Galilei's Early Natural Philosophy10 The Jesuits and Galileo's Ideas of Science and of Nature; 11 Galileo and the Art of Rhetoric; 12 Galileo Galilei: A Philosophical Symbol; 13 Alexandre Koyré and Great Britain: Galileo and Mersenne; 14 Marin Mersenne and the Origins of Language; 15 Le Corps à la Renaissance: Theories of Perceiver and Perceived in Hearing; 16 Expectation, Modelling and Assent in the History of Optics.