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  • Routledge Revivals: Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine (2006)

    An Encyclopedia

    Edited by Steven J. Livesey, Faith Wallis, Thomas Glick ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages
    First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation. In Europe, the Islamic world, South and East Asia, and the Americas, individuals built on earlier achievements, introduced sometimes radical refinements and laid the foundations for modern ... Read more

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  • The Secrets of Alchemy

    by Lawrence M. Principe ...
    Series series Synthesis
    "This elegant, readable book…covers the history of alchemy from its shadowy origins in Hellenistic Egypt to its scholarly recovery in the 20th century" (Anthony Grafton, Science).In The Secrets of Alchemy, science historian and practicing chemist Lawrence M. Principe dispels commonly held misconceptions about alchemy and sheds light on what it was, how it began, and how it influenced a range of ... Read more

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  • The Cave and the Light

    Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

    by Arthur Herman ...
    The definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture—and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture down to the present day.Plato came from a wealthy, connected Athenian family and lived a comfortable ... Read more

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  • God's Philosophers

    How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

    by James Hannam ...
    This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam debunks many of the myths about the Middle ... Read more

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  • Infinitesimal

    How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

    by Amir Alexander ...
    Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line.On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts ... Read more

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  • Before Galileo

    The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe

    by John Freely ...
    A physicist and historian sheds light on scientific minds, breakthroughs, and innovations that paved the way for the Scientific Revolution.Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, a conflict which ignited the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. As a consequence of this narrative frame, ... Read more

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  • The Map of Knowledge

    A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found

    by Violet Moller ...
    “The Map of Knowledge is an endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeAfter the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean ... Read more

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  • Medieval Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Marenbon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    For many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval philosophy had a far broader reach than the thirteenth and fourteenth-century universities of Christian Europe, and is instead one of the most exciting and diversified periods in the history of thought. ... Read more

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  • The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Lawrence M. Principe ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds revealed by ships and scalpels, telescopes and microscopes, ... Read more

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  • Aladdin's Lamp

    by John Freely ...
    Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded ... Read more

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  • The History of Time

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leofranc Holford-Strevens ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar? The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realise. The French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French ... Read more

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  • The Abacus and the Cross

    The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages

    by Nancy Marie Brown ...
    The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages -- in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called "The Scientist Pope," Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant beginnings to lead the church. By turns a teacher, traitor, kingmaker, and visionary, Gerbert is ... Read more

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