Science, Optics, and Music in Medieval and Early Modern ThoughtA.C. Crombie is one of the best known writers on the history of Science. Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought brings together a coherent body of essays that complement his books and are of independent value. A.C. Crombie traces general themes in the development of Science: the Aristotelian inheritance and the importance of the search for logical explanation in the middle ages; the ambitions and limitations of experiment and quantification; changing attitudes to scientific progress; the relations between Science and the Arts, and between Mathematics, Music and Medical Science; and the study of the senses. In particular he shows how the mechanistic hypothesis stimulated the experimental and philosophical study of vision. |
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Contents
Historical Commitments of European Science | 1 |
Marin Mersenne and the SeventeenthCentury | 15 |
The Relevance of the Middle Ages to the Scientific | 41 |
Quantification in Medieval Physics | 73 |
Avicennas Influence on the Western Medieval | 91 |
Grossetestes Position in the History of Science | 115 |
The Significance of Medieval Discussions | 139 |
De Modo Visionis 285 | 225 |
Philosophical Presuppositions and Shifting | 345 |
Mathematics Music and Medical Science | 363 |
The Study of the Senses in Renaissance Science | 379 |
Some Aspects of Descartess Attitude | 419 |
Historical Commitments of Biology | 429 |
What is the History of Science? | 441 |
a History and Philosophy at Oxford | 453 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Science, Optics, and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought |
| Author | Alistair Cameron Crombie |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | A&C Black, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0907628796, 9780907628798 |
| Length | 474 pages |
| Subjects | › History / General |
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