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Economy and nature in the fourteenth century : money, market exchange, and the emergence of scientific thought /
This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in their search for factors influencing proto-scient...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
4th ser., 35. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in their search for factors influencing proto-scientific thought. This book searches for influences both within and beyond university culture, and argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly influenced by the contemporary rapid monetisation of European society. It analyses the impact of the monetised market place on the most characteristic concern of natural philosophy of the period: its preoccupation with measurement, gradation, and the quantification of qualities. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 273 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511002874 9780511002878 0511038496 9780511038495 0511116543 9780511116544 0521793866 9780521793865 9780521572767 0521572762 9780511496523 0511496524 |