A History of Natural Philosophy Hardback: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

Grant

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521869315 ISBN 13: 9780521869317

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. This book describes how, in the seventeenth century, natural philosophy and the exact mathematical sciences were joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible and lay the foundations for the emergence of numerous modern sciences in the nineteenth century.

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'Edward Grant is one of the world's greatest authorities on medieval science. In the book under review he brings together his lifelong research on medieval science to reflect on the relation between natural philosophy and science.' Medical History

Biografía del autor:

Edward Grant is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author and editor of twelve books, including God and Reason in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2001), and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (Cambridge, 1996). He is also the author of approximately ninety articles on the history of science and natural philosophy. He was Vice-President and President of the History of Science Society and was awarded the prestigious George Sarton Medal of that society.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521869315
• ISBN 13: 9780521869317
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376