The beginnings of western science : the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, prehistory to A.D. 1450
David C. Lindberg surveys the most important themes in the history of science, including developments in cosmology, astronomy, mechanics, optics, alchemy, natural history and medicine. In addition, he offers an account of the transmission of Greek science to medieval Islam and subsequently medieval Europe
Print Book, English, 2007
2nd ed
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007