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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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