TY - BOOK AU - Lindberg,David C TI - The beginnings of Western science: the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 SN - 0226482316 AV - Q124.95 .L55 1992Z U1 - ARCH FRBC 509.4 L742B PY - 1992/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Science, Ancient KW - History KW - Science, Medieval N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-440) and index; Science and its origins -- The Greeks and the cosmos -- Aristotle's philosophy of nature -- Hellenistic natural philosophy -- The mathematical sciences in antiquity -- Greek and Roman medicine -- Roman and early medieval science -- Science in Islam -- The revival of learning in the West -- The recovery and assimilation of Greek and Islamic science -- The medieval cosmos -- The physics of the sublunar region -- Medieval medicine and natural history -- The legacy of ancient and medieval science ER -