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Science, optics, and music in medieval and early modern thought

 By Alistair Cameron Crombie

Science, optics, and music in medieval and early modern thought

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Continuum International Publishing Group, 1990 - Science - 474 pages
A.C. Crombie is 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.
  

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Contents

Historical Commitments of European Science
1
Marin Mersenne and the SeventeenthCentury
15
The Relevance of the Middle Ages to the Scientific
41
Quantification in Medieval Physics
73
Avicennas Influence on the Western Medieval
91
Grossetestes Position in the History of Science
115
The Significance of Medieval Discussions
139
De Modo Visionis 285
225
Philosophical Presuppositions and Shifting
345
Mathematics Music and Medical Science
363
The Study of the Senses in Renaissance Science
379
Some Aspects of Descartess Attitude
419
Historical Commitments of Biology
429
What is the History of Science?
441
a History and Philosophy at Oxford
453
Index
465

The Primary Properties and Secondary Qualities
323
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A. C. Crombie Alhazen analysis anatomy ancient angle animals Arabic argument Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's arts Avicenna body camera obscura Carugo cause centre colour conception cone contemporary cornea demonstration Descartes developed discussion effect example experience experimental explanation Galen Galileo Galileo Galilei geometrical Geschichte glacialis Greek history of science human Ibid images species inquiry intellectual intersect Kepler knowledge Latin lens Leonardo da Vinci libri light logical London Marin Mersenne mathematical mathematicians mechanism mechanistic medicine medieval Mersenne modern motion natural philosophy natural science object observation optic nerve Opus Oxford Paris perception philosophers physical physiological Plato principles problems produced prop pupil quantitative questions rainbow rational rays refraction relation Renaissance retina Robert Grosseteste Roger Bacon scientific method scientific movement seen sensation sense seventeenth century surface technical Theodoric of Freiberg theoretical theory things tion transl translation vision visual vitreous humour Witelo

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Literacy and Gender
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Taking History On-Line
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Notes
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Cambridge, Mass - Page 93
Paris, MS - Page 62
Oxford - Page 453
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Padua - Page 323
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Firenze - Page xxi
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Cambridge - Page xv
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Basel - Page 289
more pages: 220
Edinburgh - Page 363
more pages: 260
Princeton - Page xv
more pages: 330
St Augustine - Page 46
more pages: 29 75 94 165
New York - Page 453
more pages: xix 398
Bologna - Page 337
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Apulia - Page 102
Paris - Page 156
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London - Page 102
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Rome - Page 43
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Ithaca, New York - Page 270
more pages: 373
Messina - Page 218
Berlin - Page 272
more pages: 243 397
Prague - Page 226
Orlando - Page 172
Los Angeles, California - Page 31
more pages: 272
Cologne - Page 109
Jerusalem - Page 85
Toulouse - Page 65
Berkeley - Page 398
Venice - Page 2
more pages: 104
Naples - Page 290
more pages: 373
Brussels - Page 273
Oxford, MS - Page 61
Windsor - Page 264
Perugia - Page 332
Boston, Mass - Page 44
Kyoto - Page xv
Tokyo - Page xv

Bibliographic information

TitleScience, optics, and music in medieval and early modern thought
AuthorAlistair Cameron Crombie
Editionillustrated
PublisherContinuum International Publishing Group, 1990
ISBN0907628796, 9780907628798
Length474 pages
Subjects › 

Music
Music / History & Criticism
Optics
Science
Science / General
Science / History
Science, Medieval
Science/ Europe/ History
Science/ History
  
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