
Medieval Science and Technology
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Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Series Foreword
- Advisory Board
- Preface
- Chronology
- Chapter 1: Overview and History: The Classical Tradition and the Early Middle Ages
- Chapter 2: Institutional History: The High and Late Middle Ages
- Chapter 3: Aristotle, Plato, and the Medieval Scientific Worldview
- Chapter 4: The Exact Sciences
- Chapter 5: The Biological and Earth Sciences
- Chapter 6: Medieval Technology
- Chapter 7: The Impact of Medieval Science and Technology
- Biographies
- Adelard of Bath
- Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great)
- Alhazen (Ibn al-Haythan)
- Aristotle
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
- Roger Bacon
- Thomas Bradwardine
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- John Buridan
- Giovanni Dondi
- Leonardo Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa)
- Galen of Pergamum
- Gerard of Cremona
- Robert Grosseteste
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Isidore of Seville
- Nicole Oresme
- Peter Peregrinus (Peter of Maricourt)
- Plato
- Claudius Ptolemy
- Trotula
- Primary Documents
- 1. Aristotle On Final Causes in Nature
- from the Physics
- 2. Galen (129-199 or 200) On Female Physiology and Inferiority
- 3. Trotula On the Diseases of Women (Eleventh Century)
- 4. Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1142) On the Important Scientific Questions in the Twelfth Century
- from His Questions on Natural Science
- 5. Albertus Magnus (c. 1193-1280) On Animals: The Rabbitand Spiders
- 6. Guy de Chauliac (c. 1290-c. 1367-70), Medieval Surgeon,On What Makes a Good Doctor
- 7. A Medieval Herbal (Thirteenth Century)
- 8. Nicole Oresme (c. 1325-82) and Arguments for the Diurnal Rotation of the Earth
- 9. Hugh of St. Victor On the Mechanical Arts
- 10. Roger Bacon (c. 1219-92) On Experimental Science
- from the Opus maius
- 11. A Cistercian Monk Praises the Mechanized Water System of Clairvaux Abbey
- 12. Medieval Alchemy
- Glossary
- Annotated Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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