The popes and science
Subtitle: the history of the papal relations to science during the Middle Ages and down to our own time
By: by James J. Walsh
Edition: Knights of Columbus edition (40,000).
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 1913
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Copyright date: 1908
Subjects: Science; History; Popes; Religion and science
Notes: Includes index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The supposed papal prohibitions of dissection.; title: The story of anatomy down to the renaissance.; title: The golden age of anatomy. Vesalius.; title: The supposed papal prohibition of chemistry.; title: A papal patron of education and of science.; title: The church and surgery during the middle ages.; title: The popes and medical education and the Papal Medical School.; title: Papal physicians.; title: The foundation of city hospitals.; title: The church and the experimental method.; title: Churchmen and physical science in the medieval universities.; title: The medieval university man and science.; title: The church and the mentally afflicted.; title: Appendix 1. Opposition to scientific progress.; title: Appendix 2. Latin text of papal bulls and decrees.; title: Appendix 3. Emperor Frederick's law regulating the practice of medicine (1231).