Cycles of Time and Scientific Learning in Medieval Europe

ISBN-13: 9780860784715 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 336 str.

Wesley M. Stevens

Opis

These 11 studies in English are concerned with medieval scientific learning in Europe, including Stevens' "Jarrow Lecture", revised for this volume, on Bede's scientific achievement.

Spis treści

Contents: Cycles of time: Calendrical and astronomical reckonings in early science; Bede’s scientific achievement; The figure of the earth in Isidore’s De natura rerum; Scientific instruction in early insular schools; Sidereal time in Anglo-Saxon England; Fulda scribes at work. Bodleian Library manuscript Canonici miscellaneous 353; A ninth-century manuscript from Fulda: Canonici misc. 353, with three facsimiles; Introduction to Hrabani De computo liber; Compotistica et astronomica in the Fulda School; Walahfrid Strabo: a student at Fulda; Computus-Handschriften Walahfrid Strabos; Index.

O autorze

Wesley M. Stevens