Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe - Hardcover

Freely, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715645366 ISBN 13: 9780715645369

Publisher: Overlook Press, 2013

Synopsis

Histories of Western science often begin their narrative with Galileos battle to gain acceptance for Copernicus heliocentric model. But physicist John Freely sets out to right this historical injustice by showing how a succession of European scholars as far back as the Dark Ages paved the way for the exciting discoveries of later centuries. Discussing the influential work of such figures as the Venerable Bede and Albertus Magnus, he identifies those giants on whose shoulders Newton said he was standing.

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Review:

A sinuous odyssey ... Freely chronicles the transmission of scientific ideas from ancient Greece and Rome to an early modern Europe on the cusp of the scientific revolution.' Booklist 'Informative and intriguing ... Freely shows how Western science developed in relation to - and in controversy with - ancient Greek ideas about matter, light, motion and the structure of the heavens. * Publishers Weekly *

About the Author:

John Freely was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926. He left school at seventeen to join the US Navy for the last years of World War II. He has a PhD from New York University and completed his postdoctoral studies at Oxford. He teaches physics at Bosphorous University in Istanbul. He has written over forty books, including The Grand Turk and Istanbul: The Imperial City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0715645366
• ISBN 13: 9780715645369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352