| Description |
xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pure mathematics The medieval tradition of Archimedes' Sphere and cylinder / Wilbur Knorr -- Applied mathematics Colonizing the world for mathematics: the diversity of medieval strategies / A. George Molland -- pt. 1. Natural philosophy Mathematical physics and imagination on the work of Oxford calculators: Roger Swineshead's On natural motions / Edith D. Sylla -- Thomas Bradwardine: mathematics and continuity in the fourteenth century / John E. Murdoch -- pt. 2. Astronomy and cosmology Plinian astronomical diagrams in the early Middle Ages / Bruce Eastwood -- Coordinates and categories: the graphical representation of functions in medieval astronomy / J.D. North -- Eccentrics and epicycles in medieval cosmology / Edward Grant -- pt. 3. Optics Psychology versus mathematics: Ptolemy and Alhazen on the moon illusion / A.I. Sabra -- Roger Bacon and the origins of perspectiva in the West / David C. Lindberg -- Mathematics and experiment in Witelo's Perspectiva / Sabetai Unguru -- pt. 4. Medicine The two faces of a medical career: Jordanus de Turre of Montpellier / Michael R. McVaugh |
| Analysis |
Mathematics 1000-1500 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Clagett, Marshall, 1916-2005.
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Astronomy, Medieval.
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Mathematical physics -- History.
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Mathematics -- History.
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Mathematics, Medieval.
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Physics -- History.
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Optics -- History.
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Science, Medieval.
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| Author |
Clagett, Marshall, 1916-2005.
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Grant, Edward, 1926-
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Murdoch, John Emery, 1927-2010.
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| LC no. |
86023273 |
| ISBN |
052132260X |
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