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Grant, Edward - Murdoch, John E. (eds.), Mathematics and Its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Age: Essays in Honor of Marshall Clagett, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987, xii + 337 pp.
- Resum
- 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.
Contents:
-- Pure mathematics:
* The medieval tradition of Archimedes' Sphere and cylinder / Wilbur Knorr
-- Applied mathematics:
* Colonizing the world for mathematics: the diversity of medieval strategies / A. George Molland
-- Pt. 1. Natural philosophy:
* Mathematical physics and imagination on the work of Oxford calculators: Roger Swineshead's On natural motions / Edith D. Sylla
* Thomas Bradwardine: mathematics and continuity in the fourteenth century / John E. Murdoch
-- Pt. 2. Astronomy and cosmology:
* Plinian astronomical diagrams in the early Middle Ages / Bruce Eastwood
* Coordinates and categories: the graphical representation of functions in medieval astronomy / J.D. North
* Eccentrics and epicycles in medieval cosmology / Edward Grant
-- Pt. 3. Optics:
* Psychology versus mathematics: Ptolemy and Alhazen on the moon illusion / A.I. Sabra
* Roger Bacon and the origins of perspectiva in the West / David C. Lindberg
* Mathematics and experiment in Witelo's Perspectiva / Sabetai Unguru
-- Pt. 4. Medicine:
* McVaugh (1987), "The two faces of a medical career ..."
-- Publications of Marshall Clagett · 325-328
- Matèries
- Universitats i ensenyament
Matemàtica
Aritmètica i geometria
Astronomia i astrologia
Cosmologia
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