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9780521141949

Mathematics and its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Marshall Clagett

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    9780521141949

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    052114194X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-04-01
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Originally published in 1987, this important synthesis represented the first effort by modern scholars to convey the variety of ways in which medieval scientists and natural philosophers used mathematics and mathematical modes of thought to describe natural phenomena. Eleven distinguished historians of science contributed original essays on the application of mathematics to natural philosophy, astronomy, cosmology, optics and medicine. The book is a fitting tribute to Professor Marshall Clagett of The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for his significant contributions to the history of medieval science.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Introduction
Pure Mathematics
The medieval tradition of Archimedes'
Applied Mathematics
Colonizing the world for mathematics: the diversity of medieval strategies
Natural Philosophy
Mathematical physics and imagination in the work of the Oxford Calculators: Roger Swineshead's On Natural Motions
Thomas Bradwardine: mathematics and continuity in the fourteenth century
Astronomy and Cosmology
Plinian astronomical diagrams in the early Middle Ages
Coordinates and categories: the graphical representation of functions in medieval astronomy
Eccentrics and epicycles in medieval cosmology
Optics
Psychology versus mathematics: Ptolemy and Alhazen on the moon illusion
Roger Bacon and the origins of perspectiva in the West
Mathematics and experiement in Witelo's Perspectiva
Medicine
The two faces of a medical career: Jordanus de Turre of Motpellier
Publications of Marshall Clagett
Index
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