附註:Includes bibliographical references.
The early Middle Ages. The twelfth century. Selections from Adelard of Bath, natural questions -- Selections from anonymous, On the elements -- Robert Grossetest and scientific method. Selections from Robert Grosseteste, The impressions of the elements -- Selections from Robert Grosseteste, The heat of the sun -- The tides. Selections from Robert Grosseteste, An inquiry into the causes of the tides -- Studies of the rainbow. Selections from Carl B. Boyer, "The theory of the rainbow: medieval triumph and failure;" Isis xlix -- Studies of local motion. Selection from H. Lamar Crosby, Jr., ed, Thomas of Bradwardine his Tractatus de proportionibus -- Selections from John Buridan, Questions on the heavens and the world -- Selections from Marshall Clagett, The science of mechanics in the Middle Ages -- Selections from Nicole Oresme, On the book of the heavens and the world of Aristotle.
Astronomy. Selections from John Buridan, Questions on the heavens and the world -- Selections from Nicole Oresme, On the book of the heavens and the world of Aristotle -- The fringes of science. Selections from Daniel of Morley, On the natures of things above and below -- Selections from Marius, On the elements -- Selections from Robert Grosseteste, Hexaemeron -- Selections from Richard Fishacre, Commentary on the sentences -- Selections from Michael Scot, Liber introductorius and prooemium -- Selections from Roger Bacon, Opus maius -- Selections of Roger Bacon, Opus tertium.
摘要:The scientists of the twelfth century were daring, original, inventive, and above all determined to discover purely rational explanations of natural phenomena. Their intense interest in the natural world for its own sake, their habits of precise observation, and the high value they place on man as a rational being portend a new age in the history of scientific thought. This book offers a comprehensive sampling of medieval scientific thought in the context of an historical narrative.
