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Dawn Of Modern Science

From The Ancient Greeks To The Renaissance

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By Thomas Goldstein

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“Suffused not only with knowledge, but with the author’s passionate love for his subject, the history of science. . . . [A] triumph.”–Science

Foreword by Isaac Asimov

Dawn of Modern Science explores the beginnings of science from the cosmology of ancient Greece to the cataclysmic conflict between the Medieval understanding of nature through spiritual contemplation and the Renaissance’s revolutionary efforts to forge an awareness by observing and exploring the physical world.

Showing how each culture has colored science with its own characteristic hues, the author brings to life such figures as the Ionian exile Pythagoras, who developed the mathematical language by which we apprehend the intrinsic order of nature; al-Khwarizmi, court mathematician in the ninth century who developed the Arabic numerals; Roger Bacon, the Franciscan teacher and thinker who foresaw the machine age with stunning, prophetic vision; Dominican Albertus Magnus, whose studies of plant and animal life–made during long travels barefoot across northern Europe–laid the foundations of major empirical sciences; the aged astronomer and geographer Paolo Toscanelli, who measured the path of the sun on a cathedral floor and whose letter to Columbus launched the discovery of the New World; Leonardo da Vinci, the lonely genius of science and art, who personified the Renaissance, and its fascination with life itself. Across the centuries, Goldstein guides the reader through a shining intellectual pageant in a way that is both illuminating and unforgettable.

On Sale
Mar 22, 1995
Page Count
316 pages
Publisher
Da Capo Press
ISBN-13
9780306806377

Thomas Goldstein

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Thomas Goldstein is a noted authority on Medieval history, the Italian Renaissance, and the Age of Discoveries. He lives in New York.

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