Title: Science, optics, and music in medieval and early modern thought
First published: 1990
Description: "A.C. Crombie was one of the best known writers on the history of Science. Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought brings together a coherent body of essays that complement his books and are of independent value. A.C. Crombie traces general themes in the development of Science: the Aristotelian inheritance and the importance of the search for logical explanation in the middle ages; the ambitions and limitations of experiment and quantification; changing attitudes to scientific progress; the relations between Science and the Arts, and between Mathematics, Music and Medical Science; and the study of the senses. In particular he shows how the mechanistic hypothesis stimulated the experimental and philosophical study of vision."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Subjects: History, History and criticism, Medieval Science, Music, Optics, Science, Science, Medieval, Science, history, Science, europe, Music, history and criticism
Places: Europe
LC classification: Q125 .C686 1990