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Mar 29, 2007 · This book is a very good history of Natural Philosophy (what we call "Science" today). It begins in antiquity with the early writings and cultures that engaged in inquiries and investigations of nature and things that we associate with "science" such as mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, biology, zoology, etc.
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- Edward Grant
- $21.11
- Cambridge University Press
A History of Natural Philosophy Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little con-cerned with mathematics. By contrast, the exact mathematical sciences – such as astronomy, optics, and mechanics – were narrowly confined to various ...
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Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little concerned with mathematics. By contrast, the exact mathematical sciences were narrowly confined to various computations that did not involve physical causes, functioning totally ...
- Edward Grant
- 2007
Jan 29, 2007 · He is the author and editor of twelve books, including God and Reason in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2001), and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (Cambridge, 1996). He is also the author of approximately ninety articles on the history of science and natural philosophy.
- Edward Grant
- 361 pages
- 0521869315, 9780521869317
- Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Nov 29, 2002 · Despite the title's comprehensive timescale, it is a book concentrating more on the medieval times (~1100-1500), of the scholastic philosophy and early universities. The interplay of theology and medieval natural philosophy, and how these were foundational in the latter rise of modern science.
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