Texts and contexts in ancient and medieval science : : studies on the occasion of John E. Murdoch's seventieth birthday / / edited by Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh.
These studies respond to the challenge posed twenty years ago by John E. Murdoch, in whose honor they have been assembled: to interpret ancient and medieval mathematical and scientific texts not just as isolated intellectual productions but as responses to particular settings or contexts. Two broad...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 78 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [The Netherlands] ;, New York ;, Köln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 1997. ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
Volume 78. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh
- Eudoxan Astronomy And Aristotelian Holism In The Physics / Jean de Groot
- The Latin Sources Of Quadrans Vetus, And What They Imply For Its Authorship And Date / †Wilbur R. Knorr
- Roger Bacon's De Laudibus Mathematicae. A Preliminary Study / George Molland
- What Really Happened On 7 March 1277? Bishop Tempier's Condemnation And Its Institutional Context / J. M. M. H. Thussen
- Armengaud Blaise As A Translator Of Galen / Michael R. McVaugh
- The Meanings Of Natural Diversity: Marco Polo On The "Division" Of The World / Katharine Park
- Thomas Bradwardine's De Continuo And The Structure Of Fourteenth-Century Learning / Edith D. Sylla
- Nicole Oresme, Aristotle's On The Heavens, And The Court Of Charles V / Edward Grant
- Charles V, Nicole Oresme, And Christine De Pizan: Unities And Uses Of Knowledge In Fourteenth-Century France / Joan Cadden
- Academic Consulting In Fifteenth-Century Vienna: The Case Of Astrology / Michael H. Shank
- Domingo De Soto's "Laws" Of Motion: Text And Context / William A. Wallace
- Art, Nature, And Experiment Among Some Aristotelian Alchemists / William R. Newman
- Index Codicum / Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh
- General Index / Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh.