Title: God's philosophers : how the medieval world laid the foundations of modern science /
Authors: Hannam, James.
Publisher: Icon,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Science, Medieval.
Abstract: God's Philosophers is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. --from publisher description.
Contents: Introduction: The truth about science in the Middle Ages -- After the fall of Rome: progress in the early Middle Ages -- The mathematical pope -- The rise of reason -- The twelfth-century renaissance -- Heresy and reason -- How pagan science was Christianised -- Bloody failure: magic and medicine in the Middle Ages -- The secret arts of alchemy an astrology -- Roger Bacon and the science of light -- The clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford -- The Merton calculators -- The apogee of medieval science -- new horizons -- Humanism and the Reformation -- The polymaths of the sixteenth century -- The workings of man: medicine and anatomy -- Humanist astronomy and Nicolaus Copernicus -- Reforming the heavens -- Galileo and Giordano Bruno -- Galileo and the new astronomy -- The trial and triumph of Galileo -- Conclusion: A scientific revolution?