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

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

x, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.