Title The beginnings of Western science : the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 / David C. Lindberg.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	Q124.95 .L55 1992	Available	---

Description	xviii, 455 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-440) and index.
Contents	Science and its origins -- The Greeks and the cosmos -- Aristotle's philosophy of nature -- Hellenistic natural philosophy -- The mathematical sciences in antiquity -- Greek and Roman medicine -- Roman and early medieval science -- Science in Islam -- The revival of learning in the West -- The recovery and assimilation of Greek and Islamic science -- The medieval cosmos -- The physics of the sublunar region -- Medieval medicine and natural history -- The legacy of ancient and medieval science.
Subject	Science, Ancient -- History.
	Science, Ancient.
	History.
	Science, Medieval -- History.
	Science, Medieval.
ISBN	0226482308 cloth alkaline paper
	0226482316 paper