Augustine to Galileo: The History of Science, A.D. 400- 1650

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Plates vii
• Acknowledgements x
• Preface xi
• Introduction xiii
• I - Science in Western Christendom until the 12th Century Renaissance 1
• II - The Reception of Greco-Arabic Science in Western Christendom 19
• III - The System of Scientific Thought in the 13th Century 44
• IV - Technics and Science in the Middle Ages 143
• V - Criticism of Aristotle in the Later Middle Ages 212
• VI - The Revolution in Scientific Thought in the 16th and 17th Centuries 274
• Bibliography 404
• Index 424