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A. C. Crombie Medieval and Early Modern Science Vol. I
Harvard University Press B000VOY9Y8 Hardcover Fair
B000VOY9Y8 Hardcover, black cloth boards, no dust jacket, 296 pages, Harvard University Press / Doubleday Anchor publishers, (3rd Printing of the second edition), 1961 copyright, ASIN: B000VOY9Y8. Title: Medieval And Early Modern Science Volume 1, author: A. C. Crombie. Usually ships with delivery confirmation. Where available, a photo of the actual cover has been provided instead of a stock photo. Condition description: Acceptable means a somewhat worn copy with the main flaw which is many underlines throughout the book in blue ball-point pen and some margin notes in pen as well. From the introduction: One of the most remarkable developments in the world of scholarly letters in the last generation, and especially since the end of the Second World War, has been the growth of the study of the history of science both as a professional historical discipline and among the interests of the general reader. Considering how science has quietly come to take a central position in our culture this is perhaps not surprising; some knowledge of the history of science has become unavoidably part of the acquisition of historical awareness. Certainly the considerable interest shown in the period covered by this book is not difficult to explain. It has long been a matter of curiosity to know something of the scientific thought of those medieval centuries in which so many other essential aspects of our civilization, ranging from the theory and practice of law and government to the character of feeling and execution in poetry and the plastic arts, had their genesis and formation. I hope that in these pages the reader curious to know something of the history of medieval science, not simply as the background to modern science but as interesting in itself, may find at least a general guide to his inquiries. The stories of science in antiquity and in modern times have been told more than once in recent works, both separately and as part of general histories of science, but there exists no adequate short history of science in this formative period that lies between.
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Samuel Sambursky The Physical World Of Late Antiquty
Basic Books Inc.,U.S. 0465057233 / 9780465057238 Hardcover Good
0465057233 Hardcover, red cloth boards, no dust jacket, 189 pages, Basic Books publishers, 1962 copyright, ISBN: 0465057233. Title: The Physical World of Late Antiquity, author: Samuel Sambursky. Usually ships with delivery confirmation. Where available, a photo of the actual cover has been provided instead of a stock photo. Condition description: some light wear, back corner has small dent on lower corner, spine shows some light-fading, small spot on back cover, some booksellers pencil marks on first page. From the preface: The present book, in a way a continuation of my two earlier ones, describes the development of scientific conceptions and theories in the centuries following Aristotle until the close of antiquity in the sixth century A.D. From the copious literature of that period, and the works of the Aristotelian commentators in particular, I have selected and interpreted texts which are of interest for the comparative history of scientific ideas, with special emphasis on the epistemological foundations of physical theories. The sequence of the chapters is determined by methodological considerations, but each chapter is largely independent of the others, dealing with one special aspect of the subject. The material contained in some of the chapters is an extension of lectures which I gave in the spring of 1960 at universities in England and the U.S.A. Relatively little has been published on the history of scientific doctrines in the later centuries of antiquity, with the exception of the relevant chapters in P. Duhem's comprehensive work Le Systeme du Monde, which appeared about fifty years ago. I cherish the somewhat immodest hope that the present book may help to change for the better the attitude of neglect towards later antiquity still shared by many classical scholars and scientists alike.
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