Before Science

The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy

Roger French, Andrew Cunningham (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

1996
Scolar Press (Verlag)
978-1-85928-287-8 (ISBN)

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The opposition of science and religion is a recent phenomenon; in the middle ages, and indeed until the middle of the nineteenth century, there was almost no conflict. In the Middle Ages the objective study of nature - the activity we now call science - was largely the province of religious men. This book looks at the origins of western science and the central role played by the Dominican and Franciscan friars. It explains why these two groups devoted so much intellectual effort to the study of physical and biological phenomena, and distinguishes 'Natural Philosophy' from 'science' as presently understood. Though the friars were recognisably 'scientific' in their approach their motives were religious - they wished to understand the mind of God and the beauty of God's nature. Even so, as this study makes clear, the roots of western science lie in the monasteries and refuges of the medieval friars - the direct forebears of the anti-scientific Popes of the age of Copernicus and Galileo.

Roger French, Andrew Cunningham

Introduction; Philosophy and true philosophy; Town air; Sapienta and scientia: the cloister and the school; Nature and the twelfth century; Heresy and Dominic; The evil and good world; Conquest and re-education; Dominican re-education; Fiat lux! Let there be light!; Et facta est lux! And there was light; Epilogue.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.7.1996
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-85928-287-3 / 1859282873
ISBN-13	978-1-85928-287-8 / 9781859282878
Zustand	Neuware