ISBN: 9781590206072 (hc)

Description: 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Other Title: Birth of modern science in medieval Europe

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-333) and index.

Contents:

• Light in the Dark Ages
• Educating Europe
• The opinions of the Arabs
• A renaissance before the Renaissance
• Converting Aristotle
• The metaphysics of light
• The experimental method
• The science of motion
• Over the rainbow
• The revival of astronomy, East and West
• The revolutions of the celestial spheres
• The new astronomy
• The great debate
• On the shoulders of giants.

Control Number: 879394

Subjects:

• Science -- Europe -- History.
• Science, Medieval -- History.