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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 is 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, [2008?]
[International Society for Science and Religion], [Cambridge], [2008?]