Mathematics And Its Applications To Science And Natural Philosophy In The Middle Ages
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Mathematics and Its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Author: Edward Grant
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1987-08
Eleven distinguished historians of science explore natural philosophy and mathematics in the Middle Ages.
The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
Author: Edward Grant
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1996-10-28
Contrary to prevailing opinion, the roots of modern science were planted in the ancient and medieval worlds long before the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Indeed, that revolution would have been inconceivable without the cumulative antecedent efforts of three great civilisations: Greek, Islamic, and Latin. With the scientific riches it derived by translation from Greco-Islamic sources in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Christian Latin civilisation of Western Europe began the last leg of the intellectual journey that culminated in a scientific revolution that transformed the world. The factors that produced this unique achievement are found in the way Christianity developed in the West, and in the invention of the university in 1200. As this 1997 study shows, it is no mere coincidence that the origins of modern science and the modern university occurred simultaneously in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages.
Akribeia: Certainty and Ontology of Mathematics in Alessandro Piccolomini's De certitudine mathematicarum
This book provides a comprehensive study of the origins of seminal early modern debates on the certainty and ontology of mathematics. It analyzes Alessandro Piccolomini’s De certitudine mathematicarum (1547), a work that ignited widespread controversy by challenging the scientific status of mathematics. The study delves into Piccolomini’s logical doctrines, his philosophy of mathematics, and his perspectives on the relationship between mechanics and natural philosophy. Special attention is given to Piccolomini’s ancient and medieval sources, the 16th-century rediscovery of Proclus’ In Euclidem, and the influence of Priscian’s In De Anima.