Science Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought - Couverture rigide

Crombie, A.C.

 
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Synopsis

A.C. Crombie is one of the best known writers on the history of Science. Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought brings together a coherent body of essays that complement his books and are of independent value. A.C. Crombie traces general themes in the development of Science: the Aristotelian inheritance and the importance of the search for logical explanation in the middle ages; the ambitions and limitations of experiment and quantification; changing attitudes to scientific progress; the relations between Science and the Arts, and between Mathematics, Music and Medical Science; and the study of the senses. In partiar he shows how the mechanistic hypothesis stimulated the experimental and philosophical study of ion.

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