Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus

by Edward Grant

Book Overview

Historian Edward Grant illuminates how today's scientific culture originated with the religious thinkers of the Middle Ages. In the early centuries of Christianity, Christians studied science and natural philosophy only to the extent that these subjects proved useful for a better understanding of the Christian faith, not to acquire knowledge for its own sake. However, with the influx of Greco-Arabic science and natural philosophy into Western Europe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801884012
• ISBN13: 9780801884016
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

brilliant and clear

One does not find too often within a single book such combination of precise scholarship, objectivity, sense of perspective and clarity of exposition. Its price is modest, but beware, it might well compel you to refresh some of your ideas and knowledge on the subject.