The appreciation of ancient and medieval science during the Renaissance (1450-1600).
"An account of how and to what extent ancient and medieval sciences were transmitted during the Renaissance. A detailed picture of scientific knowledge and its dissemination during the years from 1450 to 1600. Because this span paralleled the development of printing , this work examines the con...
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Philadelphia :
Univ. of Pennsylvania Press,
1955.
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| Series: | Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography. Publications ;
1953. |
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture I: medicine. Hippocrates of Cos ; Celsus ; Soranos of Ephesos ; Galen of Pergamon ; The early Byzantine physicians ; Avicenna ; Medical collections ; A few words of conclusion
- Lecture II: natural history. The four masters ; Aristotle of Stageiros ; Theophrastos of Eresos ; Dioscorides of Anazarbos ; Pliny the Elder ; The development of naturalism in art and science ; Printed images ; The new herbals ; The encyclopedists ; The anatomists ; Conclusions
- Lecture III: mathematics and astronomy. Plato and Aristotle ; Euclid of Alexandria ; Archimedes of Syracuse ; Apollonios of Perga ; Ptolemy of Alexandria ; The middle books ; Arithmetic ; Algebra ; Trigonometry ; Astronomy ; Mathematical encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Appendix: the survival of ancient and medieval men of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.