- Paperback: 464 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. (28 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0486288501
- ISBN-13: 978-0486288505
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.7 x 3.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,370,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A definitive history leading up to and through the Scientific Revolution which has been compared to the rise of Greek philosophy, and the spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire. Crombie (U. of Oxford) surveys scientific stalls and advances from the Middle Ages to the full flowering of science in the 17th century. This second edition is the
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An excellent account of the evolution of science., 12 Oct 1998
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This review is from: The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo (Paperback)
This is a very widely encompassing account of the evolution and development of science through history. The considerations of the sociopolitical and philosophical climates pertaining to the times gives the reader a basis of understanding why science progressed as it did. The account is very well organised and lucid, although it fails in some aspects to consider the contributions of the Far Eastern civilizations. It makes a very valuable contribution to help appreciate acutely the value of those who contributed to science's development.
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Mediocre, 11 July 2009
By Viktor Blasjo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo (Paperback)
This is a very mediocre history. I shall illustrate its mediocrity by criticising this quotation:
"The formulation of the Aristotelian 'law of motion' metrically as a function [velocity proportional to motive power over resistance], so that it became quantitatively refutable, was an achievement of the greatest importance, even though neither Bradwardine nor any of his contemporaries discovered an expression that fitted the facts or indeed applied any empirical quantitate test." (p. II.70)
This makes no sense. Nothing is added to the verbal expression by turning it into a formula.
In what sense did the law suddenly become "quantitatively refutable" by this transformation? Obviously not because it enabled Galileo-style objections based on joining bodies of different weights, since such objections were raised already in Antiquity (p. II.65). Nor because it drew attention to the case resistance=0 or the possibility that the force caused no motion, since these cases was discussed in detail by Aristotle himself (p. II.62-63).
Crombie's answer is cryptic: "Using his metric formulation, Bradwardine was able to show" various things, most notably "Bradwardine argued that Aristotle's law meant that if a given ratio p/r produced a velocity v, then the ratio that would double this velocity was not 2p/r but (p/r)^2" (p. II.71). Why on earth would (p/r)^2 double the velocity? This claim is nowhere in Aristotle. Apparently Bradwardine "argued" that it is implicit in Aristotle, but we see no trace of this alleged "argument." It seems to me that the mistaken belief that (p/r)^2 doubles the velocity was in fact introduced by mathematics rather than eliminated by it. Crombie has no evidence that any error of this kind was ever committed in the pre-"metrical" period.
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