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This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution.ā¦
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2 authors picked God's Philosophers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The popular view is that āmediaeval scienceā is a contradiction in terms, but this isā¦ well, nonsense, really. The mediaeval world did not have āscientistsā (the term was only invented in the 1830s), but it did have ānatural philosophersā who studied the world about them with great care and interest.
True, they worked within a totally different framework from later scientists, and that made the kind of leaps forward that were made in the 17th century impossible. But nevertheless, they thought logically, examined carefully, reasoned well, and even sometimes experimented successfully.
James Hannamās book is a great introduction to aā¦
From Nicholas' list on science and religion through the ages.
The Middle Ages in Europe weren't quite the festering stew of ignorance, superstition, and pointless theological arguments about how many angels could fit on the head of a pin as they have often been portrayed. In Godās Philosophers, James Hannam offers a refreshing challenge to the orthodox portrayal that all was darkness until the dawn of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. He also reveals how, far from being the enemy of science, religious belief actually stimulated scientific enquiry during this time. Moreover, while Isaac Newton may have once remarked that he had seen further thanks only to standing onā¦
From Kersten's list on to think differently about the history of science.
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