Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781859282878 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 312 str.

Roger French; Andrew Cunningham

Opis

This text studies the invention of the Friars' natural philosophy.

Recenzje

'the central ideas in this book are worked out in scholarly detail, and there is much here that is of a stimulating nature.' EHR 'an important book which will stimulate considerable rethinking of issues that many historians and philosophers of science have been taking for granted for a long time...will cause historians and philosophers of science to re-evaluate some of their most deeply held assumptions.' Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Vol.29, No. 2 'there is much to be gained from French and Cunningham’s study. It offers a vivid reminder that neither investigations of nature nor deliberations about doctrine can be divorced from their context.'

Spis treści

Introduction; Philosophy and true philosophy; Town air; Sapienta and scientia: the cloister and the school; Nature and the twelfth century; Heresy and Dominic; The evil and good world; Conquest and re-education; Dominican re-education; Fiat lux! Let there be light!; Et facta est lux! And there was light; Epilogue.

O autorze

Roger French, Andrew Cunningham