Grant, Edward, A Source Book in Medieval Science (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press)
Text name(s): Theory of the Planets; "On Comets"; "On the Formation of Minerals"; On the Formation of Stones and Mountains"; On the Causes of the Tides" and "On the Rainbow (Robert Grosseteste); "Letter on the Magnet" (Peter Peregrinus); Averroes' Comment on Text 71; Algorismus proportionum; De sinibus demonstratis
Number of pages of primary source text: 806
Author(s):
- William of Moerbeke
- Trota
- Peckham, John
- Oresme, Nicholas
- Ockham, William of
- Maimonides, Moses
- Lanfranc of Milan
- John of Gaddesden
- Isidore of Seville
- Hugh of Saint Victor
- Grosseteste, Robert
- Buridan, Jean
- Bradwardine, Thomas
- Boethius of Dacia
- Bernard of Gordon
- Bartholomew of Lucca
- Bacon, Roger
- Avicenna
- Arnaldus de Villa Nova
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Albertus Magnus
- Adelard of Bath
- Alnwick, William
- Campanus of Novara
- Duns Scotus, John
- Neckam, Alexander
- Nicholas of Autrecourt
- Matthaeus Platearius
- Calcidius
Dates: 400 - 1662
Archival Reference:
Original Language(s):
- Latin
- Greek
- Arabic
Translation:
- Translated into English.
Translation Comments:
Geopolitical Region(s):
- Sicily
- Persia
- Middle East
- Italy
- Iberian Peninsula
- Germany
- England
- France
- Flanders
- Africa
County/Region:
Record Types:
- Law - Legislation
- Translation
- Treatise - Scientific/Medical
Subject Headings:
- Science - Mathematics
- Science - Astronomy
- Science / Technology
- Philosophy - Platonic / Neo-Platonic
- Philosophy - Logic
- Philosophy - Ethics / Moral Theology
- Philisophy - Aristotelian
- Philosophy / Theology
- Medicine
- Grammar / Rhetoric
- Education / Universities
Apparatus:
- Index
Comments:
This volume of excerpted, translated texts seeks to fill the need of historians of science for access to a comprehensive coverage of science in the Middle Ages. As such, it includes many obscure and often overlooked authors, thorough annotations, brief biographies of each author (809-830), and an index (831-864). That the texts are translated into Modern English, however, also makes the volume useful to advanced undergraduate students. The sources of the volume are mostly drawn from the high and late Middle Ages, though it includes some Late Antique works. The book is thus split into two sections, the second with various subsections:
Early Middle Ages: The Latin Encyclopedists
Later Middle Ages: The Translation of Greek and Arabic Science into Latin; Typical Scientific Questions Based on Aristotle’s Major Physical Treatises; Physics; Astronomy, Astrology, and Cosmology; Alchemy and Chemistry; Geology, Geography, and Oceanography; Medicine
Introduction Summary:
Cataloger: SKG
