A Source Book in Medieval Science (Source Books in the History of the Sciences)

Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with some loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xviii, 864 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. "This Source Book explores a millennium of European scientific thought accompanied by critical commentary and annotation; nearly half the selections appear for the first time in the vernacular. Representing 'science' in the medieval sense, selections include alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology as well as mathematics, physics, and biology." From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).…