| Physical description |
xiv, 361 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-345) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Ancient Egypt to Plato -- The Preliterate Beginnings -- Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia -- Early Greek Natural Philosophy and Medicine -- Plato -- 2. Aristotle (384-322 BC) -- Life -- Works: Aristotle's Writings and Their Preservation -- Aristotle's Achievements -- Aristotle's Cosmos and Natural Philosophy -- The Scope of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy -- 3. Late Antiquity -- Neoplatonism and Its Approach to Aristotle -- 4. Islam and the Eastward Shift of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy -- The Translations -- The Fate of Natural Philosophy in Islam -- 5. Natural Philosophy before the Latin Translations -- Roman Authors -- The Latin Encyclopedists: European Learning to the Ninth Century -- The Twelfth Century and Its Immediate Antecedents -- Hostile Reception of the New Theology -- Natural Philosophy in the Twelfth Century -- 6. Translations in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- The World of the Translators -- Translations from Arabic and Greek in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- How Trustworthy Are Aristotle's Translated Texts? -- Pseudo-Aristotle: Works Falsely Attributed to Aristotle -- 7. Natural Philosophy after the Translations: Its Role and Place in the Late Middle Ages -- The Medieval University -- The Impact of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the Early Thirteenth Century to 1240 -- University Lectures on Natural Philosophy -- The Classification of the Sciences and the Subject of Natural Philosophy -- Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Treatise on Natural Philosophy -- The Occult Sciences and Natural Philosophy -- 8. The Form and Content of Late Medieval Natural Philosophy -- John Buridan: On the Possibility of Other Worlds -- The Substantive Nature of Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages -- Thought Experiments and the Role of the Imagination -- Beyond Aristotle -- Was Aristotelian Natural Philosophy Science? -- 9. The Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology -- The Disciplinary Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology -- Did God and Theology Play an Integral Role in Medieval Natural Philosophy? -- How a Few Significant Natural Philosophers Viewed the Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology -- The Relationship as Reflected in the Questions and Commentaries on the Works of Aristotle -- Did Natural Philosophy Influence Medieval Theology? -- 10. The Transformation of Medieval Natural Philosophy from the Early Modern Period to the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Fate of Medieval Natural Philosophy during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- The New Natural Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century -- The Relations between Natural Philosophy and Science in the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- The Revolution in Natural Philosophy from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century -- The Continuity of History and the Problem of Names and Terminology. |
| Subject |
Physics -- History.
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Science -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780521689571 (paperback) |
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0521689570 (paperback) |
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9780521869317 |
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0521869315 |
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