A Sourcebook in Medieval Science

Grant, Edward, Ed.

ISBN 10: 0674823605 / ISBN 13: 9780674823600

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1974

About this Item

864pp. Charcoal cloth with dull but fully readable lettering on spine. Black dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price), with white title and editor name lettering on upper and lower extremes of front cover, with manifold names of authors whose works are selected, listed in yellow lettering in the large space in between; assorted chips and wrinkles along edges, with pieces missing at spine ends (1/2" x 1/4" at foot of spine, "3/4" x 1/4" x 1/2" x 7/8" at top of spine; triangular piece missing at top rear corner (1 3/4" x 2" x hypot), 1" x 7/8" x 3/4" x 1 5/8"), with 1/2" of dw left betwee these tow missing pieces at top left of rear cover; 2 other 1/4" chips missing to right of center of rear top edge and at gutter at top left of spine; closed tears along spine front and rear edges from holding book in hand, now mended on inner side of dw with archival tape along: describes worse than it is: now in mylar which forgives sins mightily.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Sourcebook in Medieval Science
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674823605
• ISBN 13: 9780674823600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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, insofar as they are relevant to medieval science, selections have been drawn from works on alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology. Most of the book, however, reflects medieval understanding of, and achievements in, the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences. Critical commentary and annotation accompany the selections. An appendix contains brief biographies of all authors.

This book will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars in the history of science.

About the Author

Edward Grant is Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, at Indiana University, Bloomington.