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Before Galileo : the birth of modern science in medieval Europe / John Freely.

by Freely, John.

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Overlook Duckworth, c2012.

509.40902 F854b

Science, Medieval -- History.

Science -- Europe -- History.

9781590206072 (hc.)

159020607X (hc.)

348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-333) and index.

Light in the Dark Ages -- Educating Europe -- The opinions of the Arabs -- A renaissance before the Renaissance -- Converting Aristotle -- The metaphysics of light -- The experimental method -- The science of motion -- Over the rainbow -- The revival of astronomy, East and West -- The revolutions of the celestial spheres -- The new astronomy -- The great debate -- On the shoulders of giants.

"Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, which ignited the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. Virtually nothing is said about the European scholars who came before. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a succession of scholars paved the way for the discoveries for which Galileo, Newton, and others are often credited. In Before Galileo, John Freely examines the pioneering research of the first European scientists, many of them monks whose influence ranged far beyond the walls of the monasteries where they studied and wrote. One of the earliest of them, Saint Bede, writing a thousand years before Galileo, was so renowned that two centuries after his death a Swiss monk wrote that "in the sixth day of the world [God] has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth." Before Galileo trenchently fills a notable gap in the history of science, and places the great discoveries of the age in their rightful context."--Dust jacket.

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