Medieval Science in Fisher Library

Basic reading:

Chapter 5: “Criticism of Aristotle in the Later Middle Ages”, in Crombie, A. C., Augustine to Galileo; the history of science, A.D. 400-1650. Fisher Special Reserve 509 9 B.

Butterfield, H., Origins of modern science 1300-1800, Fisher Research 509 3

Other reading:

Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie, Medieval cosmology : theories of infinity, place, time, void, and the plurality of worlds, Fisher Research 113.0902 2 [“lost item”]

Weisheipl, James A., Nature and motion in the Middle Ages, Fisher Research 530.01 18 (Includes: “Classification of the Sciences in Medieval Thought”; “The Evolution of Scientific Method”; “Medieval Natural Philosophy and Modern Science”.)

Grant, Edward, The foundations of modern science in the Middle Ages : their religious, institutional, and intellectual contexts, Fisher Research 509.40902 3

Kibre, Pearl,  Studies in medieval science : alchemy, astrology, mathematics, and medicine, Fisher Research 501 432 (Includes: “The Quadrivium in the 13th century Universities”)

Clagett, Marshall, The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages Fisher Research 531.09

Mathematics and its applications to science and natural philosophy in the Middle Ages: essays in honor of Marshall Clagett, edited by Edward Grant, John E. Murdoch. Fisher Research 509.02 4 (Includes: Edith Sylla , “Mathematical physics and imagination in the work of the Oxford Calculators”;  J.E. Murdoch, “Thomas Bradwardine: Mathematics and continuity in the 14th century”.)

Clagett, Marshall, Studies in medieval physics and mathematics, Fisher Research 510.9 80

Crombie, A. C., Science, optics, and music in medieval and early modern thought, Fisher Research 509.02 8

Texts and contexts in ancient and medieval science : studies on the occasion of John E. Murdoch's seventieth birthday, edited by Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh. Fisher Research 509.3 6 (Includes: Edith Sylla, “Thomas Bradwardine’s De continuo and the Structure of 14th Century Learning”; J.M.M.H. Thijssen, “What really happened on 7 March 1277? Bishop Tempier’s condemnation and its institutional context”.)

Richard of Wallingford : an edition of his writings  with introductions, English translation and commentary by J. D. North. Fisher Research 520.8 6

Grant, Edward, Planets, stars, and orbs : the medieval cosmos, 1200-1687,Fisher Special Reserve 523.109 6

Infinity and continuity in ancient and medieval thought, edited by Norman Kretzmann. Fisher Research 111.6 1

Wallace, William A., Galileo, the Jesuits, and the medieval Aristotle, Fisher Research 520.92 25

The Scientific Revolution

Butterfield, H., Origins of modern science 1300-1800, Fisher Research 509 3

 

On progress and revolution in knowledge:

Peirce, Charles S., Philosophical writings of Peirce, selected and edited with an introd. by Justus Buchler.(pp. 228-9, 256-7, 298-9, 302-5) Fisher Research 191 P378 4; or R. Chisholm, “Fallibilism and Belief” in P. Wiener and F. Young (eds.), Studies in the Philosophy of C.S. Peirce, Fisher Research 191.9 54

Popper, Karl Raimund, Conjectures and refutations : the growth of scientific knowledge, (pp. 27-9, 33-59,120-35) Fisher Research, Fisher Special Reserve, Fisher Undergraduate 121 41

Kuhn, Thomas S., The structure of scientific revolutions. Fisher Research 501 233 A

Kilcullen, John, “The Ethics of Belief and Inquiry”, in Sincerity and Truth: Essays on Arnauld, Bayle and Toleration, esp. pp. 145-164. Fisher Research 179.9 27