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Dr James Hannam was educated at Oxford and Cambridge where he studied physics and then the history of science. Hannam also runs the website www.bede.org.uk which receives up to 40,000 page views a month.
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- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1848310706
- ISBN 13 9781848310704
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GOD'S PHILOSOPHERS: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
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