Science, art, and nature in medieval and modern thought
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Science, art, and nature in medieval and modern thought
Hambledon Press, 1996
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  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and the diversification of both vision and argument by scientific experience and by interaction with the wider contexts of intellectual culture, constitute the long history of European scientific thought. Underlying that development have been specific commitments to conceptions of nature and of science and its intellectual and moral assumptions, accompanied by a recurrent critique; their diversification has generated a series of different styles of scientific thinking and of making theoretical and practical decisions which the work describes.
Table of Contents
- Designed in the mind - Western visions of science, nature and humankind
- the Western experience of scientific objectivity
- historical perspective of medieval science
- Robert Grosseteste (c1168-1253)
- Roger Bacon (c1219-1292)
- infinite power and the laws of nature - a medieval speculation
- experimental science and the rational artist in early modern Europe
- mathematics and Platonism in the 16th-century Italian universities and in Jesuit educational policy
- sources of Galileo Galilei's early natural philosophy
- the Jesuits and Galileo's ideas of sceicne and of nature
- Galileo and the art of rhetoric
- Galileo Galilei - a philosophical symbol
- Alexandre Koyre and Great Britain - Galileo and Mersenns
- Marin Mersenne and the origins of language
- le corps a la Renaissance - theories of perceiver and perceived in hearing
- expectation, modelling and assent in the history of optics - i, Alhazen and the medieval tradition, ii, Kepler and Descartes
- contingent expectation and uncertain choice - historical contexts of arguments from probabilities
- P.-L. Moreau de Maupertuis, F.R.S. (1698-1759) - precurser du transformisme
- the public and private faces of Charles Darwin
- the language of science
- some historical questions about disease
- historians and the scientific revolution
- the origins of western science.
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