Edward Grant

Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550

From Aristotle to Copernicus

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Produktbeschreibung

Many people believe that during the Middle Ages, Christianity was actively hostile toward science (then known as natural philosophy) and impeded its progress. This comprehensive survey of science and religion during the period between the lives of Aristotle and Copernicus demonstrates how this was not the case. Medieval theologians were not hostile to learning natural philosophy, but embraced it. Had they had not done so, the science that developed during the Scientific Revolution would not-and could not-have occurred. Students and lay readers will learn how the roots of much of the scientific culture of today originated with the religious thinkers of the Middle Ages. Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 thoroughly covers the relationship between science and religion in the medieval period, and provides many resources for the student or lay reader. The book discusses how the influx of Greek and Arabic science in the 12th and 13th centuries- especially the works of Aristotle in logic and natural philosophy-dramatically changed how science was viewed in Western Europe. The volume demonstrates how medieval universities and their teachers disseminated a positive attitude toward rational inquiry and made it possible for Western Europe to become oriented toward science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780313328589
• ISBN-10: 0313328587
• Artikelnr.: 22038727

Autorenporträt

Edward Grant

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Aristotle and the Beginnings of Two Thousand Years of Natural
Philosophy The Emergence and Development of the Sciences in the Greek World
The First Six Centuries of Christianity: Christian Attitudes Toward Greek
Philosophy and Science The Emergence of a New Europe After the Barbarian
Invasions: The Interaction of Reason and Church Authority in the Twelfth
Century The Medieval Universities and the Impact of Aristotle's Natural
Philosophy on Learning and Religion in the Thirteenth Century The
Interrelations Between Natural Philosophy and Theology (or Science and
Religion) in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Relations Between
Science and Religion in the Three Great Medieval Civilizations: the
Byzantine Empire, Islam, and the Latin West