Reconfiguring the world : nature, God, and human understanding from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe / Margaret J. Osler.

  • Osler, Margaret J., 1942-2010.
Date:
2010
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Physical description

x, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Western view of the world before 1500 -- Winds of change : searching for a new philosophy of nature -- Observing the heavens : from Aristotelian cosmology to the uniformity of nature -- Creating a new philosophy of nature -- Shifting boundaries : from mixed mathematics to mathematical physics -- Exploring the properties of matter : alchemy and chemistry -- Studying life : plants, animals, and humans -- Rethinking the universe : Newton on gravity and God.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9780801896552
  • 080189655X
  • 9780801896569
  • 0801896568