Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to SciencePeter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, Michael H. Shank University of Chicago Press, 2011 - 416 pagina's When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early modern Europe, which saw the triumph of Copernicanism and the birth of experimental science, while yet another view is that the appearance of science was postponed until the nineteenth century. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
1 Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Francesca Rochberg | 9 |
2 Natural Knowledge in the Classical World Daryn Lehoux | 37 |
3 Natural Knowledge in the Arabic Middle Ages Jon McGinnis | 59 |
4 Natural Knowledge in the Latin Middle Ages Michael H Shank | 83 |
5 Natural History Peter Harrison | 117 |
6 Mixed Mathematics Peter Dear | 149 |
7 Natural Philosophy John L Heilbron | 173 |
9 Science and Technology Ronald R Kline | 225 |
10 Science and Religion Jon H Roberts | 253 |
11 Science Pseudoscience and Science Falsely SoCalled Daniel P Thurs and Ronald L Numbers | 281 |
12 Scientific Methods Daniel P Thurs | 307 |
13 Science and the Public Bernard Lightman | 337 |
14 Science and Place David N Livingstone | 377 |
Contributors | 401 |
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