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The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts

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The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts - Grant, Edward
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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 ...

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The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521567626

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