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This book offers a comprehensive sampling of medieval scientific thought in the context of an historical narrative. <p>The documents selected range from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, a period of profound change. It is useful to remember that the scientific professions as such did not then exist, and that most of the authors had public careers in the Church or the world. The texts here offered thus are for most part the work of thinkers deeply involved in the society and culture of their time.</p> <p>The themes and topics chosen show medieval scientific thought at its most original -- the study of motion, and astronomy, and at its most characteristic -- the world of non-material causation and the realm of magic, the "fringes of science."</p> <p>It was the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that came to regard human reason as man's distinctive and unique possession, placing great responsibility upon intellectual activity; both man's reason, and the material world it investigated, held integral and honorific places in the divine plan of creation.</p> <p>The scientists of the twelfth century were daring, original, inventive, and above all determined to discover purely rational e

Author

with an introduction by Katherine Fischer Drew

Publisher

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812210552

Subjects

Science, History, Stem