Before Galileo : the birth of modern science in medieval Europe
(2013)
By:
Freely, John
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Abrams, 2013
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781468308501 (electronic bk.) MWT12465988, 1468308505 (electronic bk.) 12465988
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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 exciting discoveries usually credited to Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, and others. In Before Galileo, physicist and historian 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
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