Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: ages, scientific, revolution, middle, vacuum, theories, space, ado
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1981-05-29
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0521229839
ISBN-13: 9780521229838

The primary objective of this study is to provide a description of the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries. The second part of the book - on infinite, extracosmic void space - is of special significance. The significance of Professor Grant’s account is twofold: it provides a comprehensive and detailed description of the scholastic Aristotelian arguments for and against the existence of void space; and it presents (again for the first time) an analysis of the possible influence of scholastic id

Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: ages, middle, reason, god
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2001-07-30
List price: $30.99
ISBN-10: 0521003377
ISBN-13: 9780521003377

The Age of Reason associated with the names of Descartes, Newton, Hobbes, and the French philosophers, actually began in the universities that first emerged in the late Middle Ages (1100 to 1600) when the first large scale institutionalization of reason in the history of civilization occurred. This study shows how reason was used in the university subjects of logic, natural philosophy, and theology, and to a much lesser extent in medicine and law. The final chapter describes how the Middle Ages acquired an undeserved reputation as an age of superstition, barbarism, and unreason.

Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: science, studies, history, cambridge, ages, middle, physical
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1978-01-27
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521292948
ISBN-13: 9780521292948

This concise introduction to the history of physical science in the Middle Ages begins with a description of the feeble state of early medieval science and its revitalization during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as evidenced by the explosion of knowledge represented by extensive translations of Greek and Arabic treatises. The content and concepts that came to govern science from the late twelfth century onwards were powerfully shaped and dominated by the science and philosophy of Aristotle. It is, therefore, by focussing attention on problems and controversies associated with Aristotel

Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: philosophy, studies, history, ages, middle, natural, nature
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 2010-04-21
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0813217385
ISBN-13: 9780813217383

The period from 1200 to 1500 laid the intellectual and institutional foundations for the Scientific Revolution that would occur in the seventeenth century. During this time, the spirit of inquiry motivated natural philosophers more than did substantive content or arguments. Natural philosophers posed hundreds of questions about nature and weighed the pros and cons of each. In the process, they developed a philosophical approach to nature that may be characterized as "probing and poking around"--they used their imaginations guided by reason. In this volume, distinguished scholar Edward Gran

Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: nineteenth, century, world, ancient, natural, philosophy, history
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0521689570
ISBN-13: 9780521689571

Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little concerned with mathematics. By contrast, the exact mathematical sciences were narrowly confined to various computations that did not involve physical causes, functioning totally independently of natural philosophy. Although this began slowly to change in the late Middle Ages, a much more thoroughgoing union of natural philosophy and mathematics occurred in the seventeenth century and thereby made the Scientific Revolution possible. The titl

Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: history, sciences, books, source, medieval, science, sourcebook
Number of Pages: 884
Published: 1974-01-01
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0674823605
ISBN-13: 9780674823600

Modern scholarship has exposed the intrinsic importance of medieval science and confirmed its role in preserving and transmitting Greek and Arabic achievements. This Source Book offers a rare opportunity to explore more than ten centuries of European scientific thought. In it are approximately 190 selections by about 85 authors, most of them from the Latin West. Nearly half of the selections appear here for the first time in any vernacular translation. The readings, a number of them complete treatises, have been chosen to represent "science" in a medieval rather than a modern sense. Thus,

Authors:Okyay Kaynak, Ger Honderd, Edward Grant,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: systems, asi, series, sciences, nato, computer, issues, safety, reliability, maintainability, intelligent
Number of Pages: 351
Published: 1993-12-07
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3540569936
ISBN-13: 9783540569930

This book is a collection of some of the papers that were presented during aNATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Kusadasi, Turkey, August 24-28, 1992. Attendance at this workshop was mainly by invitation only, drawing people representing industry, government and the academic community. Many of the participants were internationally recognized leaders in the topic of the workshop. The papers in the volume are grouped in six parts, with a balance of theory and applications. Some papers provide introductory and overview material as well as reviews o