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"Medieval scientists are just victims of some bad public relations. Fortunately, Professor John Freely, physicist and book author, is here to set the record straight, in a book called "Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe"."--Science 2.0
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"Valuable . . . introduces us to the monks and friars who kept scientific inquiry alive." --"The Wall Street Journal"
"Physicist John Freely traces this 'tenuous Ariadne's thread' of learning that unspooled from Egypt through Byzantium and the Islamic world." --"Nature"
"Freely packs a lot of good stuff into 315 pages and makes the case that modern science in Europe benefited from a thousand years of work leading up to it. We just have to look past the public relations efforts to find it." --"Science 2.0"
Praise for "Before Galileo"
"Valuable . . . introduces us to the monks and friars who kept scientific inquiry alive." --"The Wall Street Journal"
"Physicist John Freely traces this 'tenuous Ariadne's thread' of learning that unspooled from Egypt through Byzantium and the Islamic world." --"Nature"
"Freely packs a lot of good stuff into 315 pages and makes the case that modern science in Europe benefited from a thousand years of work leading up to it. We just have to look past the public relations efforts to find it." --"Science 2.0""
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Praise for "Before Galileo"
"Valuable . . . introduces us to the monks and friars who kept scientific inquiry alive." --"The Wall Street Journal"
"Physicist John Freely traces this 'tenuous Ariadne's thread' of learning that unspooled from Egypt through Byzantium and the Islamic world." --"Nature"
"Freely packs a lot of good stuff into 315 pages and makes the case that modern science in Europe benefited from a thousand years of work leading up to it. We just have to look past the public relations efforts to find it." --"Science 2.0"
Praise for "Before Galileo"
"Valuable . . . introduces us to the monks and friars who kept scientific inquiry alive." --"The Wall Street Journal"
"Physicist John Freely traces this 'tenuous Ariadne's thread' of learning that unspooled from Egypt through Byzantium and the Islamic world." --"Nature"
"Freely packs a lot of good stuff into 315 pages and makes the case that modern science in Europe benefited from a thousand years of work leading up to it. We just have to look past the public relations efforts to find it." --"Science 2.0""
John Freely was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926. He teaches physics at Bosphorous University in Istanbul. He has written more than forty books, including "The Lost Messiah, The Grand Turk, " and "Aladdin's Lamp."
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- PublisherOverlook Pr
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1468306995
- ISBN 13 9781468306996
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